D-xylose catabolism in Sinorhizobium fredii NGR234

GapMind for catabolism of small carbon sources

D-xylose catabolism in Sinorhizobium fredii NGR234

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Rules

Overview: Xylose degradation in GapMind is based on MetaCyc pathways I via D-xylulose (link), II via xylitol (link), III or V via 2-dehydro-3-deoxy-D-arabinonate (DKDP) dehydratase (link, link), IV via DKDP aldolase (link), as well as another pathway via DKDP dehydrogenase (PMC6336799).

all:

xylose-transport, xylA and xylB
or xylose-transport, xyrA, xdhA and xylB
or xylose-transport, xdh, xylC, xad, kdaD and dopDH
or xylose-transport, xdh, xylC, xad, DKDP-aldolase, glycolaldehyde-dehydrogenase, gyaR and glcB
or xylose-transport, xdh, xylC, xad, DKDP-dehydrog, HDOP-hydrol, gyaR and glcB
Comment: In pathway I, isomerase xylA forms D-xylulose and kinase xylB forms D-xylulose 5-phosphate, an intermediate in the pentose phosphate pathway. In pathway II, the reductase xyrA forms xylitol, the dehydrogenase xdhA forms xylitol, and the kinase xylB forms D-xylulose 5-phosphate. (This pathway is only reported in fungi.) In pathway III or V, dehydrogenase xdh forms xylonolactone, lactonase xylC forms D-xylonate, dehydratase xad forms 2-dehydro-3-deoxy-D-arabinonate, dehydratase kdaD forms 2,5-dioxopentanoate (also known as α-ketoglutarate semialdehyde), and dopDH forms 2-oxoglutarate, an intermediate in the TCA cycle. (Pathway III has a 1,4-lactone intermediate, while pathway V has a 1,5-lactone intermediate; GapMind does not distinguish these.) In pathway IV, xdh and xylC form D-xylonate, dehydratase xad forms 2-dehydro-3-deoxy-D-arabinonate (DKDP), and an aldolase forms pyruvate and glycolaldehyde; glycolaldehyde is oxidized to glycolate and to glyoxylate, and assimilated by malate synthase (glcB). Alternatively, after DKDP is formed, a dehydrogenase forms 5-hydroxy,2-4-dioxopentanonate (HDOP), and a hydrolase forms pyruvate and glycolate (PMC6336799); the glycolate is oxidized to glyoxylate and converted to malate.

glycolaldehyde-dehydrogenase:

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

xylose-transport:

xylT
or gal2
or glcP
or Echvi_1871
or xylF, xylG and xylH
or xylF_Tm, xylE_Tm and xylK_Tm
or araV, araU, araT and araS
or gtsA, gtsB, gtsC and gtsD
Comment: Transporters were identified using query: transporter:D-xylose:xylose:CPD-15377

36 steps (30 with candidates)

Or see definitions of steps

Step	Description	Best candidate	2nd candidate
xylF	ABC transporter for xylose, substrate binding component xylF	NGR_RS23225	NGR_RS23260
xylG	ABC transporter for xylose, ATP-binding component xylG	NGR_RS23220	NGR_RS00525
xylH	ABC transporter for xylose, permease component xylH	NGR_RS23215	NGR_RS14475
xylA	xylose isomerase	NGR_RS25875
xylB	xylulokinase	NGR_RS25880	NGR_RS03660
Alternative steps:
aldA	(glycol)aldehyde dehydrogenase	NGR_RS06845	NGR_RS03080
aldox-large	(glycol)aldehyde oxidoreductase, large subunit	NGR_RS26490	NGR_RS14300
aldox-med	(glycol)aldehyde oxidoreductase, medium subunit	NGR_RS14315	NGR_RS26485
aldox-small	(glycol)aldehyde oxidoreductase, small subunit	NGR_RS01010	NGR_RS14310
araS	component of Arabinose, fructose, xylose porter
araT	component of Arabinose, fructose, xylose porter
araU	component of Arabinose, fructose, xylose porter	NGR_RS07690	NGR_RS08910
araV	component of Arabinose, fructose, xylose porter	NGR_RS09940	NGR_RS21950
DKDP-aldolase	2-dehydro-3-deoxy-D-arabinonate aldolase	NGR_RS15385
DKDP-dehydrog	D-2-keto-3-deoxypentoate dehydrogenase	NGR_RS26075	NGR_RS07185
dopDH	2,5-dioxopentanonate dehydrogenase	NGR_RS23205	NGR_RS27930
Echvi_1871	sodium/xylose cotransporter
gal2	galactose/glucose/xylose uniporter
glcB	malate synthase	NGR_RS28165	NGR_RS26910
glcP	glucose/mannose/xylose:H+ symporter
gtsA	xylose ABC transporter, periplasmic substrate-binding component GtsA	NGR_RS27655	NGR_RS07700
gtsB	xylose ABC transporter, permease component 1 GtsB	NGR_RS27660	NGR_RS07695
gtsC	xylose ABC transporter, permease component 2 GtsC	NGR_RS07690	NGR_RS27665
gtsD	xylose ABC transporter, ATPase component GtsD	NGR_RS07685	NGR_RS27670
gyaR	glyoxylate reductase	NGR_RS28600	NGR_RS02230
HDOP-hydrol	5-hydroxy-2,4-dioxopentanonate hydrolase	NGR_RS05215	NGR_RS02045
kdaD	2-keto-3-deoxy-D-arabinonate dehydratase	NGR_RS13180
xad	D-xylonate dehydratase	NGR_RS23200	NGR_RS13535
xdh	D-xylose dehydrogenase	NGR_RS08635	NGR_RS13555
xdhA	xylitol dehydrogenase	NGR_RS10700	NGR_RS09240
xylC	xylonolactonase	NGR_RS02200
xylE_Tm	ABC transporter for xylose, substrate binding component xylE	NGR_RS19935
xylF_Tm	ABC transporter for xylose, permease component xylF	NGR_RS27965	NGR_RS10590
xylK_Tm	ABC transporter for xylose, ATP binding component xylK	NGR_RS00525	NGR_RS09875
xylT	D-xylose transporter
xyrA	xylitol reductase	NGR_RS03645	NGR_RS24900

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 Apr 09 2024. 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 2024 update on GapMind for amino acid biosynthesis
the paper from 2022 on GapMind for carbon sources
the source code
instructions for running GapMind on your computer

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by Morgan Price, Arkin group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

GapMind for catabolism of small carbon sources