GapMind for Amino acid biosynthesis

 

chorismate biosynthesis in Desulfovibrio oxyclinae DSM 11498

Best path

tpiA, fbp?, asp-kinase, asd, aroA', aroB', aroD, aroE, aroL, aroA, aroC

Rules

Overview: Chorismate is the starting point for the biosynthesis of the aromatic amino acids phenylalanine, tryptophan, and tyrosine. Chorismate biosynthesis in GapMind is based on MetaCyc pathways chorismate biosynthesis I (link), from D-erythrose-4-phosphate and phosphoenolpyruvate, or II (link), from D-glyceraldeyde-3-phosphate and L-asparatate. Both pathways are identical after they reach 3-dehydroquinate.

13 steps (12 with candidates)

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Step Description Best candidate 2nd candidate Known gap?
tpiA D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate phospholyase B149_RS0110990 B149_RS0110995  
fbp? 6-deoxy-5-ketofructose 1-phosphate synthase B149_RS0107855 B149_RS0103015 known gap
asp-kinase aspartate kinase B149_RS0102550 B149_RS0111850  
asd aspartate semi-aldehyde dehydrogenase B149_RS0107585  
aroA' 2-amino-3,7-dideoxy-D-threo-hept-6-ulosonate synthase B149_RS0103015 B149_RS0107855  
aroB' dehydroquinate synthase II B149_RS0103010  
aroD 3-dehydroquinate dehydratase B149_RS0111095 B149_RS0114610  
aroE shikimate dehydrogenase B149_RS0114610  
aroL shikimate kinase B149_RS17100 B149_RS0103265  
aroA 3-phosphoshikimate 1-carboxyvinyltransferase B149_RS0103000  
aroC chorismate synthase B149_RS0111535  
Alternative steps:
aroB 3-dehydroquinate synthase  
aroG 3-deoxy-7-phosphoheptulonate synthase B149_RS0111960  

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