asp-kinase, asd, dapA, dapB, DAPtransferase, dapF, lysA
Overview: Lysine biosynthesis in GapMind is based on MetaCyc pathways L-lysine biosynthesis I via diaminopimelate (DAP) and succinylated intermediates (link), II with DAP and acetylated intermediates (link), III with DAP and no blocking group (link), V via 2-aminoadipate and LysW carrier protein (link), and VI with DAP aminotransferase (link). Most of these pathways involve tetrahydrodipicolinate and meso-diaminopimelate, with variations in how the amino group is introduced. Pathway V instead involves L-2-aminoadipate and LysW-attached intermediates. Lysine biosynthesis IV (link), via 2-aminoadipate and saccharopine, is only reported to occur in eukaryotes and is not described here.
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Step | Description | Best candidate | 2nd candidate | Known gap? |
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asp-kinase | aspartate kinase | CA_RS01565 | CA_RS09395 | |
asd | aspartate semi-aldehyde dehydrogenase | CA_RS03110 | CA_RS00135 | |
dapA | 4-hydroxy-tetrahydrodipicolinate synthase | CA_RS12210 | CA_RS18525 | |
dapB | 4-hydroxy-tetrahydrodipicolinate reductase | CA_RS12215 | ||
DAPtransferase | L,L-diaminopimelate aminotransferase | CA_RS08910 | CA_RS12220 | |
dapF | diaminopimelate epimerase | CA_RS13425 | ||
lysA | diaminopimelate decarboxylase | CA_RS03310 | ||
Alternative steps: | ||||
dapC | N-succinyldiaminopimelate aminotransferase | CA_RS00095 | CA_RS01235 | |
dapD | tetrahydrodipicolinate succinylase | |||
dapE | succinyl-diaminopimelate desuccinylase | CA_RS05395 | CA_RS14030 | |
dapH | tetrahydrodipicolinate acetyltransferase | CA_RS12225 | CA_RS20250 | |
dapL? | N-acetyl-diaminopimelate deacetylase | CA_RS05395 | CA_RS04905 | known gap (80% id.) |
dapX | acetyl-diaminopimelate aminotransferase | CA_RS02125 | CA_RS12220 | |
ddh | meso-diaminopimelate D-dehydrogenase | |||
hcs | homocitrate synthase | CA_RS01455 | CA_RS01450 | |
hicdh | homo-isocitrate dehydrogenase | CA_RS05180 | CA_RS16285 | |
lysJ | [LysW]-2-aminoadipate semialdehyde transaminase | CA_RS12260 | CA_RS07495 | |
lysK | [LysW]-lysine hydrolase | |||
lysN | 2-aminoadipate:2-oxoglutarate aminotransferase | CA_RS09440 | CA_RS07495 | |
lysT | homoaconitase large subunit | CA_RS16295 | CA_RS05175 | |
lysU | homoaconitase small subunit | CA_RS16290 | CA_RS05175 | |
lysW | 2-aminoadipate/glutamate carrier protein | |||
lysX | 2-aminoadipate-LysW ligase | |||
lysY | [LysW]-2-aminoadipate 6-phosphate reductase | CA_RS12270 | ||
lysZ | [LysW]-2-aminoadipate 6-kinase | CA_RS12265 |
Confidence: high confidence medium confidence low confidence
? – known gap: despite the lack of a good candidate for this step, this organism (or a related organism) performs the pathway
This GapMind analysis is from Jul 25 2024. The underlying query database was built on Jul 25 2024.
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:
Otherwise, a candidate is "medium confidence" if either:
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:
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:
If you notice any errors or omissions in the step descriptions, or any questionable results, please let us know
by Morgan Price, Arkin group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory