GapMind for Amino acid biosynthesis

 

L-arginine biosynthesis in Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans DSM 10331

Best path

argJ, argB, argC, argD, carA, carB, argI, argG, argH

Rules

Overview: Arginine biosynthesis in GapMind is based on MetaCyc pathways L-arginine biosynthesis I via L-acetyl-ornithine (link), II (acetyl cycle) (link), III via N-acetyl-L-citrulline (link), or IV via LysW-ornithine (link). GapMind also includes L-arginine biosynthesis with succinylated intermediates, as in Bacteroidetes (PMC5764234). These pathways all involve the activation of glutamate (by aceylation, succinylation, or attachment of LysW), followed by phosphorylation, reduction and transamination, to activated ornithine. In most pathways, this intermediate is cleaved to ornithine before transcarbamoylation, but in the N-acetylcitrulline or succinylated pathways, transcarbamoylation occurs before hydrolysis. In the final two steps, citrulline is converted to arginine by ArgG and ArgH.

21 steps (15 with candidates)

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Step Description Best candidate 2nd candidate
argJ ornithine acetyltransferase AFER_RS08620
argB N-acylglutamate kinase AFER_RS12430 AFER_RS03985
argC N-acylglutamylphosphate reductase AFER_RS08625
argD N-acetylornithine aminotransferase AFER_RS08610 AFER_RS03605
carA carbamoyl phosphate synthase subunit alpha AFER_RS08805
carB carbamoyl phosphate synthase subunit beta AFER_RS08800
argI ornithine carbamoyltransferase AFER_RS08605 AFER_RS08815
argG arginosuccinate synthetase AFER_RS08595
argH argininosuccinate lyase AFER_RS08590
Alternative steps:
argA N-acylglutamate synthase AFER_RS08620 AFER_RS12430
argD'B N-succinylornithine aminotransferase AFER_RS03605 AFER_RS08610
argE N-acetylornithine deacetylase AFER_RS10310
argE'B N-succinylcitrulline desuccinylase
argF' acetylornithine transcarbamoylase
argF'B N-succinylornithine carbamoyltransferase
argX glutamate--LysW ligase
lysJ [LysW]-glutamate-semialdehyde aminotransferase AFER_RS08610 AFER_RS03605
lysK [LysW]-ornithine hydrolase
lysW 2-aminoadipate/glutamate carrier protein
lysY [LysW]-glutamate-6-phosphate reductase AFER_RS08625
lysZ [LysW]-glutamate kinase AFER_RS12430

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.

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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:

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:

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).

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by Morgan Price, Arkin group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory