L-arabinose catabolism in Pseudarthrobacter sulfonivorans Ar51

GapMind for catabolism of small carbon sources

L-arabinose catabolism in Pseudarthrobacter sulfonivorans Ar51

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Overview: L-arabinose utilization in GapMind is based on MetaCyc pathways L-arabinose degradation I, via xylulose 5-phosphate (link); III, oxidation to 2-oxoglutarate (link); and IV, via glycolaldehyde (link). Pathway II via xylitol and xylulose is not represented in GapMind because it is not reported in prokaryotes (link).

glycolaldehyde-dehydrogenase:

aldA
or aldox-large, aldox-med and aldox-small

all:

arabinose-transport, araA, araB and araD
or arabinose-transport, xacB, xacC, xacD, xacE and xacF
or arabinose-transport, xacB, xacC, xacD, KDG-aldolase, glycolaldehyde-dehydrogenase, gyaR and glcB
Comment: In pathway I, isomerase araA forms L-ribulose, kinase araB forms ribulose 5-phosphate, and epimerase araD forms D-xylulose 5-phosphate, which is an intermediate in the pentose phosphate pathway. In pathway III, the 1-dehydrogenase xacB (which acts on the furanose form, not the usual pyranose form?) forms arabino-1,4-lactone, lactonase xacC forms arbinonate, two dehydratases form 2-dehydro-3-deoxy-L-arabinonate and 2,5-dioxopentanonate (α-ketoglutarate semialdehyde), and dehydrogenase xacF forms 2-oxoglutarate, which is an intermediate in the TCA cycle. (Fitness data suggests that L-arabinose 1-epimerase or mutarotase is also involved, perhaps in creating the correct epimer for the 1-dehydrogenase, but is not included in GapMind.) Pathway IV begins as in pathway III, to 2-dehydro-3-deoxy-L-arabinonate, followed by KDG aldolase to pyruvate and glycolaldehyde; the glycolaldehyde is oxidized to glycolate and then to glyoxylate, and combined with acetyl-CoA by malate synthase, which is a TCA cycle intermediate. (Other pathways for glyxoylate assimilation are known but are not represented here.)

arabinose-transport:

gguA, gguB and chvE
or araF, araG and araH
or araS, araT, araU and araV
or xacG, xacH, xacI, xacJ and xacK
or xylFsa, xylGsa and xylHsa
or araUsh, araVsh, araWsh and araZsh
or araE
or BT0355
or Echvi_1880
Comment: Transporters were identified using query: transporter:arabinose:L-arabinose:L-arabinofuranose:L-arabinopyranose:beta-L-arabinose:CPD-12045:CPD-12046

40 steps (28 with candidates)

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Step	Description	Best candidate	2nd candidate
gguA	L-arabinose ABC transporter, ATPase component GguA	AU252_RS04575	AU252_RS09320
gguB	L-arabinose ABC transporter, permease component GguB	AU252_RS09325	AU252_RS04580
chvE	L-arabinose ABC transporter, substrate-binding component ChvE	AU252_RS09315	AU252_RS04585
araA	L-arabinose isomerase	AU252_RS22360
araB	ribulokinase	AU252_RS22370
araD	L-ribulose-5-phosphate epimerase	AU252_RS22365
Alternative steps:
aldA	(glycol)aldehyde dehydrogenase	AU252_RS01005	AU252_RS01045
aldox-large	(glycol)aldehyde oxidoreductase, large subunit	AU252_RS20570
aldox-med	(glycol)aldehyde oxidoreductase, medium subunit	AU252_RS20560
aldox-small	(glycol)aldehyde oxidoreductase, small subunit	AU252_RS20565	AU252_RS13745
araE	L-arabinose:H+ symporter	AU252_RS05985	AU252_RS11015
araF	L-arabinose ABC transporter, substrate-binding component AraF
araG	L-arabinose ABC transporter, ATPase component AraG	AU252_RS09320	AU252_RS01705
araH	L-arabinose ABC transporter, permease component AraH	AU252_RS07275	AU252_RS01710
araS	L-arabinose ABC transporter, substrate-binding component AraS
araT	L-arabinose ABC transporter, permease component 1 (AraT)
araU	L-arabinose ABC transporter, permease component 2 (AraU)	AU252_RS14695
araUsh	L-arabinose ABC transporter, substrate-binding component AraU(Sh)
araV	L-arabinose ABC transporter, ATPase component AraV	AU252_RS06475	AU252_RS13340
araVsh	L-arabinose ABC transporter, ATPase component AraV(Sh)	AU252_RS07280	AU252_RS09320
araWsh	L-arabinose ABC transporter, permease component 1 AraW(Sh)	AU252_RS01710	AU252_RS07275
araZsh	L-arabinose ABC transporter, permease component 2 AraZ(Sh)	AU252_RS01710	AU252_RS07275
BT0355	L-arabinose:Na+ symporter
Echvi_1880	L-arabinose:Na+ symporter
glcB	malate synthase	AU252_RS07205	AU252_RS00965
gyaR	glyoxylate reductase	AU252_RS16225	AU252_RS07215
KDG-aldolase	2-dehydro-3-deoxy-L-arabinonate aldolase
xacB	L-arabinose 1-dehydrogenase	AU252_RS01735	AU252_RS01630
xacC	L-arabinono-1,4-lactonase
xacD	L-arabinonate dehydratase	AU252_RS19105	AU252_RS14175
xacE	2-dehydro-3-deoxy-L-arabinonate dehydratase
xacF	alpha-ketoglutarate semialdehyde dehydrogenase	AU252_RS14625	AU252_RS13420
xacG	L-arabinose ABC transporter, substrate-binding component XacG
xacH	L-arabinose ABC transporter, permease component 1 (XacH)	AU252_RS14430	AU252_RS14405
xacI	L-arabinose ABC transporter, permease component 2 (XacI)
xacJ	L-arabinose ABC transporter, ATPase component 1 (XacJ)	AU252_RS06475	AU252_RS11300
xacK	L-arabinose ABC transporter, ATPase component 2 (XacK)	AU252_RS06475	AU252_RS13340
xylFsa	L-arabinose ABC transporter, substrate-binding component XylF
xylGsa	L-arabinose ABC transporter, ATPase component XylG	AU252_RS13295	AU252_RS08570
xylHsa	L-arabinose ABC transporter, permease component XylH	AU252_RS10085

Confidence: high confidence medium confidence low confidence
transporter – transporters and PTS systems are shaded because predicting their specificity is particularly challenging.

This GapMind analysis is from Sep 24 2021. The underlying query database was built on Sep 17 2021.

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Each pathway is defined by a set of rules based on individual steps or genes. Candidates for each step are identified by using ublast (a fast alternative to protein BLAST) against a database of manually-curated proteins (most of which are experimentally characterized) or by using HMMer with enzyme models (usually from TIGRFam). Ublast hits may be split across two different proteins.

A candidate for a step is "high confidence" if either:

ublast finds a hit to a characterized protein at above 40% identity and 80% coverage, and bits >= other bits+10.
- (Hits to curated proteins without experimental data as to their function are never considered high confidence.)
HMMer finds a hit with 80% coverage of the model, and either other identity < 40 or other coverage < 0.75.

where "other" refers to the best ublast hit to a sequence that is not annotated as performing this step (and is not "ignored").

Otherwise, a candidate is "medium confidence" if either:

ublast finds a hit at above 40% identity and 70% coverage (ignoring otherBits).
ublast finds a hit at above 30% identity and 80% coverage, and bits >= other bits.
HMMer finds a hit (regardless of coverage or other bits).

Other blast hits with at least 50% coverage are "low confidence."

Steps with no high- or medium-confidence candidates may be considered "gaps." For the typical bacterium that can make all 20 amino acids, there are 1-2 gaps in amino acid biosynthesis pathways. For diverse bacteria and archaea that can utilize a carbon source, there is a complete high-confidence catabolic pathway (including a transporter) just 38% of the time, and there is a complete medium-confidence pathway 63% of the time. Gaps may be due to:

our ignorance of proteins' functions,
omissions in the gene models,
frame-shift errors in the genome sequence, or
the organism lacks the pathway.

GapMind relies on the predicted proteins in the genome and does not search the six-frame translation. In most cases, you can search the six-frame translation by clicking on links to Curated BLAST for each step definition (in the per-step page).

For more information, see:

the paper from 2019 on GapMind for amino acid biosynthesis
the paper from 2022 on GapMind for carbon sources
the source code
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by Morgan Price, Arkin group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

GapMind for catabolism of small carbon sources