GapMind for catabolism of small carbon sources

 

L-glutamate catabolism in Dyella japonica UNC79MFTsu3.2

Best path

gltP, gdhA

Also see fitness data for the top candidates

Rules

Overview: Glutamate is a single transamination reaction from 2-oxoglutarate (alpha-ketoglutarate), which is an intermediate in the TCA cycle. Amino acid transaminases are often non-specific, so glutamate catabolism could be considered trivial. However, many amino acid transaminases are 2-oxoglutarate dependent, so they cannot contribute to glutamate catabolism. And even if the amino group is transfered elsewhere, the ammonium group still needs to be liberated somehow. GapMind represents glutamate degradation using MetaCyc pathways L-glutamate degradation I (glutamate dehydrogenase, link), pathway II via aspartate ammonia-lyase (link), and pathway VI via glutamate mutase (link). Several other MetaCyc pathways are not included in GapMind. Pathway IV (via gamma-aminobutanoate, link) is not thought to occur in prokaryotes. Pathways V (via hydroxyglutarate, link) and XI (reductive Stickland reaction, link) combine glutamate dehydrogenase with reductive pathways; these are omitted because glutamate dehydrogenase alone suffices for catabolism under respiratory conditions. Pathways VII (to butanoate, link) and VIII (to propanoate, link) are similar to pathway VI but also describe the fermentation of the pyruvate. Pathway IX (via 4-aminobutanoate, link) does not yield net consumption of glutamate: the catabolism of 4-aminobutanoate relies on a transamination reaction that converts 2-oxoglutarate to glutamate.

38 steps (10 with candidates)

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Step Description Best candidate 2nd candidate
gltP L-glutamate:cation symporter GltP/GltT N515DRAFT_1080 N515DRAFT_0019
gdhA glutamate dehydrogenase, NAD-dependent N515DRAFT_0489 N515DRAFT_0947
Alternative steps:
aapJ ABC transporter for amino acids (Asp/Asn/Glu/Pro/Leu), substrate-binding component AapJ
aapM ABC transporter for amino acids (Asp/Asn/Glu/Pro/Leu), permease component 2 (AapM)
aapP ABC transporter for amino acids (Asp/Asn/Glu/Pro/Leu), ATPase component AapP N515DRAFT_1085 N515DRAFT_1562
aapQ ABC transporter for amino acids (Asp/Asn/Glu/Pro/Leu), permease component 1 (AapQ)
acaP L-glutamate permease AcaP
aspA L-aspartate ammonia-lyase N515DRAFT_2763
braC ABC transporter for glutamate, histidine, arginine, and other amino acids, substrate-binding component BraC
braD ABC transporter for glutamate, histidine, arginine, and other amino acids, permease component 1 (BraD)
braE ABC transporter for glutamate, histidine, arginine, and other amino acids, permease component 2 (BraE)
braF ABC transporter for glutamate, histidine, arginine, and other amino acids, ATPase component 1 (BraF)
braG ABC transporter for glutamate, histidine, arginine, and other amino acids, ATPase component 2 (BraG) N515DRAFT_3950 N515DRAFT_3588
bztA L-glutamate ABC transporter, substrate-binding component
bztB L-glutamate ABC transporter, permease component 1 (BztB)
bztC L-glutamate ABC transporter, permease component 2 (BztC)
dmeA L-glutamate transporter DmeA N515DRAFT_3368
fumD (S)-2-methylmalate dehydratase (mesaconase) N515DRAFT_4003
glmE L-glutamate mutase, E component
glmS L-glutamate mutase, S component
glnP L-glutamate ABC transporter, fused permease and substrate-binding components GlnP
gltI L-glutamate ABC transporter, substrate-binding component (GltI/AatJ)
gltJ L-glutamate ABC transporter, permease component 1 (gltJ/aatQ)
gltK L-glutamate ABC transporter, permease component 1 (gltK/aatM)
gltL L-glutamate ABC transporter, ATPase component (GltL/GluA/BztD/GlnQ/AatP/PEB1C) N515DRAFT_1085 N515DRAFT_1821
gltS L-glutamate:Na+ symporter GltS
gltS_Syn L-glutamate:Na+ symporter GltS_Syn
gluB L-glutamate ABC transporter, substrate-binding component GluB
gluC L-glutamate ABC transporter, permease component 1 (GluC)
gluD L-glutamate ABC transporter, permease component 2 (GluD)
gtrA tripartite L-glutamate:Na+ symporter, small membrane component GtrA
gtrB tripartite L-glutamate:Na+ symporter, large membrane component GtrB
gtrC tripartite L-glutamate:Na+ symporter, substrate-binding component GtrC
mal methylaspartate ammonia-lyase
mcl (S)-citramalyl-CoA pyruvate-lyase N515DRAFT_3215 N515DRAFT_2434
peb1A L-glutamate ABC transporter, substrate-binding component Peb1A
peb1B L-glutamate ABC transporter, permease component Peb1B
yveA L-glutamate:H+ symporter YveA N515DRAFT_4366

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 Sep 17 2021. 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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by Morgan Price, Arkin group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory