GapMind for catabolism of small carbon sources

 

glycerol catabolism in Malonomonas rubra DSM 5091

Best path

glpF, glpK, glpD, tpi

Rules

Overview: Glycerol utilization in GapMind is based on MetaCyc pathways glycerol degradation I via glycerol kinase (link), II via dihydroxyacetone kinase (link), or V via dihydroxyacetone:PEP phosphotransferase (link). Two fermentative pathways are not included because they do not lead to carbon incorporation (link, link).

25 steps (9 with candidates)

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Step Description Best candidate 2nd candidate
glpF glycerol facilitator glpF BUB13_RS16255
glpK glycerol kinase BUB13_RS16250 BUB13_RS09880
glpD glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (monomeric) BUB13_RS16280 BUB13_RS09885
tpi triose-phosphate isomerase BUB13_RS13070 BUB13_RS13065
Alternative steps:
aqp-3 glycerol porter aqp-3
dhaD glycerol dehydrogenase BUB13_RS06085 BUB13_RS03185
dhaK dihydroxyacetone:PEP phosphotransferase, subunit K
dhaK' dihydroxyacetone kinase, ATP dependent (monomeric)
dhaL dihydroxyacetone:PEP phosphotransferase, subunit L
dhaM dihydroxyacetone:PEP phosphotransferase, subunit M BUB13_RS10835
fps1 glycerol uptake/efflux facilitator protein
glpA glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase subunit A
glpB glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase subunit B
glpC glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase subunit C
glpF' glycerol facilitator-aquaporin
glpO glycerol 3-phosphate oxidase BUB13_RS16280 BUB13_RS09885
glpP glycerol ABC transporter, permease component 1 (GlpP)
glpQ glycerol ABC transporter, permease component 2 (GlpQ)
glpS glycerol ABC transporter, ATPase component 1 (GlpS) BUB13_RS11230 BUB13_RS11050
glpT glycerol ABC transporter, ATPase component 2 (GlpT) BUB13_RS11230 BUB13_RS17885
glpV glycerol ABC transporter, substrate-binding component GlpV
PLT5 glycerol:H+ symporter PLT5
stl1 glycerol:H+ symporter Stl1p
TIPa glycerol facilitator TIPa
YFL054C glycrol facilitator protein

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:

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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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