GapMind for Amino acid biosynthesis

 

L-phenylalanine biosynthesis in Escherichia coli BW25113

Best path

cmutase, preph-dehydratase, ilvE

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Rules

Overview: Phenylalanine biosynthesis in GapMind is based on MetaCyc pathways L-phenylalanine biosynthesis I (link), II (link), and III (link). Pathways I and III proceed via 3-phenyl-2-oxopropanoate, but with different amino acids providing the amino group for the conversion to phenylalanine. In pathway II, L-arogenate is the intermediate (the aminotransferase reaction occurs before the dehydratase reaction).

6 steps (6 with candidates)

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Step Description Best candidate 2nd candidate
cmutase chorismate mutase b2600 b2599
preph-dehydratase prephenate dehydratase b2599
ilvE phenylalanine transaminase b0928 b4054
Alternative steps:
aro-dehydratase arogenate dehydratase b2599
PPYAT tyrosine:phenylpyruvate aminotransferase b0928 b4054
ptransferase prephenate aminotransferase b3770 b2290

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 Aug 03 2021. The underlying query database was built on Aug 03 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).

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