D-galactose catabolism in Pseudomonas simiae WCS417

GapMind for catabolism of small carbon sources

D-galactose catabolism in Pseudomonas simiae WCS417

Best path

PfGW456L13_1894, PfGW456L13_1895, PfGW456L13_1896, PfGW456L13_1897, galdh, galactonolactonase, dgoD, dgoK, dgoA

Also see fitness data for the top candidates

Rules

Overview: Galactose utilization in GapMind is based on MetaCyc pathways lactose and galactose degradation I via tagatose 6-phosphate (link), the Leloir pathway via UDP-galactose (link), and the oxidative pathway via D-galactonate (link). Pathway IV via galactitol (link) is not reported in prokaryotes and is not included. (There is no pathway III.)

all: galactose-utilization
galactose-utilization:

galactose-PTS and galactose-6-phosphate-degradation
or galactose-transport and galactose-degradation

galactose-degradation:

galK, galT, galE and pgmA
or galdh, galactonolactonase, dgoD, dgoK and dgoA
Comment: In the Leloir pathway, galactokinase (galK) forms galactose 1-phosphate, a uridyltransferase (galT) uses glucose 1-phosphate to form UDP-galactose, an epimerase (galE) forms UDP-glucose, and this is converted to glucose 1-phosphate by the same uridyltransferase. (We initially included the 1-epimerase galM, EC 5.1.3.3, in our model of the Leloir pathway, but found that in most bacteria, galM proteins were not important for fitness during growth on galactose; the only exception was Echvi_0697.) The oxidative pathway begins with oxidation to a lactone (by galdh) and hydrolysis to galactonate; galactonate is then dehydrated, phosphorylated, and cleaved by an aldolase.

galactose-6-phosphate-degradation: lacA, lacB, lacC, tag16P-aldolase and tpi

Comment: The tagatose 6-phosphate pathway involves the isomerization of galactose 6-phosphate to tagatose-6-phosphate (by lacAB), phosphorylation to tagatose 1,6-bisphosphate (by lacC), and an aldolase.

tag16P-aldolase:

lacD
or gatY and gatZ
Comment: Two forms of D-tagatose-1,6-phosphate aldolase are known, homomeric (lacD) or heteromeric (gatYZ or kbaYZ)

galactose-PTS: ptcA, ptcB and ptcEIIC
galactose-transport:

mglA, mglB and mglC
or ytfQ, ytfR, ytfT and yjtF
or gguA, gguB and chvE
or glcS, glcT, glcU and glcV
or PfGW456L13_1894, PfGW456L13_1895, PfGW456L13_1896 and PfGW456L13_1897
or BPHYT_RS16935, BPHYT_RS16930 and BPHYT_RS16925
or galP
or HP1174
or gal2
or SGLT1
or CeSWEET1
or sglS
or MST1
or lacP
Comment: Transporters and PTS systems were identified using: query: transporter:galactose:D-galactose:D-galactofuranose:D-galactopyranose:CPD0-2486:CPD0-2485:alpha-d-galactose:CPD-15590

48 steps (29 with candidates)

Or see definitions of steps

Step	Description	Best candidate	2nd candidate
PfGW456L13_1894	ABC transporter for D-Galactose and D-Glucose, periplasmic substrate-binding component	PS417_22145
PfGW456L13_1895	ABC transporter for D-Galactose and D-Glucose, permease component 1	PS417_22140
PfGW456L13_1896	ABC transporter for D-Galactose and D-Glucose, permease component 2	PS417_22135
PfGW456L13_1897	ABC transporter for D-Galactose and D-Glucose, ATPase component	PS417_22130	PS417_12700
galdh	D-galactose 1-dehydrogenase (forming 1,4- or 1,5-lactones)	PS417_21340	PS417_11045
galactonolactonase	galactonolactonase (either 1,4- or 1,5-lactone)	PS417_15140	PS417_17365
dgoD	D-galactonate dehydratase	PS417_00165	PS417_11000
dgoK	2-dehydro-3-deoxygalactonokinase	PS417_00155	PS417_12130
dgoA	2-dehydro-3-deoxy-6-phosphogalactonate aldolase	PS417_22100	PS417_00160
Alternative steps:
BPHYT_RS16925	galactose ABC transporter, permease component	PS417_11035	PS417_21325
BPHYT_RS16930	galactose ABC transporter, ATPase component	PS417_11030	PS417_21330
BPHYT_RS16935	galactose ABC transporter, substrate-binding component	PS417_11025	PS417_21335
CeSWEET1	galactose transporter
chvE	galactose ABC transporter, substrate-binding component ChvE	PS417_10940
gal2	galactose transporter
galE	UDP-glucose 4-epimerase	PS417_02315	PS417_01385
galK	galactokinase (-1-phosphate forming)
galP	galactose:H+ symporter GalP
galT	UDP-glucose:alpha-D-galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase
gatY	D-tagatose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase, catalytic subunit (GatY/KbaY)	PS417_26415
gatZ	D-tagatose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase, chaperone subunit (GatZ/KbaZ)
gguA	galactose ABC transporter, ATPase component GguA	PS417_10935	PS417_11890
gguB	galactose ABC transporter, permease component GguB	PS417_10930	PS417_12060
glcS	galactose ABC transporter, substrate-binding component GlcS
glcT	galactose ABC transporter, permease component 1 (GlcT)
glcU	galactose ABC transporter, permease component 2 (GlcU)
glcV	galactose ABC transporter, ATPase component (GlcV)	PS417_27115	PS417_25760
HP1174	Na+-dependent galactose transporter
lacA	galactose-6-phosphate isomerase, lacA subunit	PS417_12070
lacB	galactose-6-phosphate isomerase, lacB subunit	PS417_12070
lacC	D-tagatose-6-phosphate kinase	PS417_03970
lacD	D-tagatose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (monomeric)
lacP	galactose:H+ symporter
mglA	galactose ABC transporter, ATPase component MglA	PS417_11890	PS417_21330
mglB	galactose ABC transporter, substrate-binding component MglB	PS417_11885
mglC	galactose ABC transporter, permease component MglC	PS417_11895	PS417_13640
MST1	galactose:H+ symporter
pgmA	alpha-phosphoglucomutase	PS417_13395	PS417_27785
ptcA	galactose PTS system, EIIA component
ptcB	galactose PTS system, EIIB component
ptcEIIC	galactose PTS system, EIIC component
sglS	sodium/galactose cotransporter
SGLT1	sodium/galactose cotransporter
tpi	triose-phosphate isomerase	PS417_24000	PS417_26430
yjtF	galactose ABC transporter, permease component 2	PS417_12060	PS417_17725
ytfQ	galactose ABC transporter, substrate-binding component
ytfR	galactose ABC transporter, ATPase component	PS417_17730	PS417_13635
ytfT	galactose ABC transporter, permease component 1	PS417_17725	PS417_12060

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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About GapMind

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 paper from 2022 on GapMind for carbon sources
the source code
instructions for running GapMind on your computer

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

GapMind for catabolism of small carbon sources