L-arginine catabolism in Escherichia coli BW25113

Best path

artJ, artM, artP, artQ, adiA, speB, puuA, puuB, puuC, puuD, gabT, gabD

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Rules

Overview: Arginine utilization in GapMind is based on MetaCyc pathways L-arginine degradation I via arginase (link); II via arginine succinyltransferase (link), III via arginine decarboxylase and agmatinase (link), IV via arginine decarboxylase and agmatine deiminase (link), V via arginine deiminase (link), VI (arginase 2, link), VII (arginase 3, link), VIII via arginase oxidase (link), IX via arginine:pyruvate transaminase (link), X via arginine monooxygenase (link), XIII via proline (link), and XIV via D-ornithine (link). Common intermediates are L-ornithine or L-proline. GapMind does not include pathways XI (link), which is poorly understood, or XII (link), which is not reported in prokaryotes.

• all:
  • arginine-transport, rocF and ornithine-degradation
  • or arginine-transport, arginine-succinyltransferase, astB, astC, astD and astE
  • or arginine-transport, adiA, speB and putrescine-degradation
  • or arginine-transport, adiA, aguA, aguB and putrescine-degradation
  • or arginine-transport, arcA, arcB, arcC and ornithine-degradation
  • or arginine-transport, aroD, aruI, kauB, gbuA and GABA-degradation
  • or arginine-transport, aruH, aruI, kauB, gbuA and GABA-degradation
  • or arginine-transport, arg-monooxygenase, gbamidase, kauB, gbuA and GABA-degradation
  • Comment: Pathways I, VI, or VII begin with rocF (arginase), which forms ornithine and urea. (The urea might not be utilized, so urease is not described here.) They differ in how the ornithine is catabolized. Pathway II begins with arginine succinyltransferase and ends with succinate and glutamate. The succinate would then be activated to succinyl-CoA to restart the cycle, or the glutamate might be oxidized to succinyl-CoA; these steps are not included here. Pathway III begins with decarboxylation to agmatine by adiA, followed by hydrolysis to putrescine and urea. Pathway IV begins with adiA and agmatine deiminase (aguA), which yields N-carbamoylputrescine; this is hydrolyzed to putrescine and urea. Pathway V begins with arginine deiminase (arcA), forming citrulline, and and a carbamoyltransferase forms carbamoyl-phosphate and ornithine. The carbamoyl-phosphate is consumed by carbamate kinase (in reverse, forming ammonia and CO2 and ATP). Pathway VIII begins with arginine oxidase aroD, which forms 5-guanidino-2-oxopentanoate (2-ketoarginine); this is converted to gamma-aminobutyrate (GABA). Pathway IX is similar to pathway VIII but the transaminase aruH forms the 5-guanidino-2-oxopentanoate. Pathway X involves arginine 2-monooxygenase (decarboxylating), forming 4-guanidinobutyramide, and an amidase, forming 4-guanidinobutyrate, which is consumed as in pathway VIII or IX.
• ornithine-degradation:
  • aruF, aruG, astC, astD and astE
  • or rocD and rocA
  • or rocD, PRO3 and proline-degradation
  • or ocd and proline-degradation
  • or odc and putrescine-degradation
  • or orr, oraS, oraE, ord, ortA and ortB
  • Comment: Ornithine is a common intermediate. It can be succinylated by aruFG and then catabolized by the later steps of the arginine succinyltransferase pathway, via aminotransferase, dehydrogenase, and desuccinylase reactions (see PMC179677 and PMID:7523119). Or as part of L-arginine degradation I, the aminotransferase rocD converts ornithine to glutamate 5-semialdehyde, which spontaneously converts to 1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate. A dehydrogenase converts this to glutamate. Or 1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate can be reduced to proline by PRO3, as in L-arginine degradation VI. Alternatively, ornithine can be converted directly to proline by ornithine cyclodeaminase (ocd). Or ornithine can be decarboxylated to putrescine by odc (link). Or ornithine can be catabolized via D-ornithine, as in L-arginine degradation XIV. A racemase converts L-ornithine to D-ornithine; an aminomutase forms (2R,4S) 2,4-diaminopentanoate; a dehydrogenase forms (2R)-2-amino-4-oxopentanoate, and a thiolase cleaves it to D-alanine and acetyl-CoA. D-alanine could be oxidized to pyruvate or perhaps secreted; this is not described here.
• arginine-succinyltransferase:
  • aruF and aruG
  • or astA
• proline-degradation:
  • put1 and putA
  • or prdF, D-proline-reductase and 5-aminovalerate-degradation
  • Comment: In pathway I, proline dehydrogenase (put1) forms (S)-1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate, which spontaneously hydrates to L-glutamate 5-semialdehyde, and a dehydrogenase (putA) to glutamate. Glutamate can be transaminated to 2-oxoglutarate, which is an intermediate in central metabolism (not represented). In pathway II, proline racemase (prdF) forms D-proline, and a reductase forms 5-aminovalerate.
• D-proline-reductase: prdA, prdB and prdC
  • Comment: D-proline reductase includes components PrdA and PrdB and electron transfer protein PrdC
• 5-aminovalerate-degradation: davT, davD and glutarate-degradation
  • Comment: 5-aminovalerate is an intermediate in L-lysine degradation (link, link). It is transaminated to glutarate semialdehyde and oxidized to glutarate. (A fermentative pathway via 5-hydroxyvalerate has also been reported, but does not seem to be fully linked to sequence; see pathway 5 of PMID:11759672.)
• glutarate-degradation:
  • glaH and lhgD
  • or gcdG and glutaryl-CoA-degradation
  • Comment: Glutarate is an intermediate in L-lysine degradation. As part of MetaCyc pathway L-lysine degradation I (link), gluratate is hydroxylated to L-2-hydroxyglutarate (also known as (S)-2-hydroxyglutarate) by a 2-oxoglutarate-dependent oxidase. This reaction releases succinate (a TCA cycle intermediate) and CO2. A dehydrogenase then oxidizes to L-2-hydroxyglutarate to regenerate 2-oxoglutarate. Alternatively, as part of pathway IV (link), glutarate can be activated to glutaryl-CoA by a CoA-transferase. Glutaryl-CoA degradation (link) involves glutaryl-CoA dehydrogenase (decarboxylating) to crotonyl-CoA (trans-but-2-enoyl-CoA), hydration to (S)-hydroxybutanoyl-CoA, oxidization to acetoacetyl-CoA, and cleavage by a C-acetyltransferase to two acetyl-CoA.
• glutaryl-CoA-degradation: gcdH, ech, fadB and atoB
  • Comment: In MetaCyc pathway glutaryl-CoA degradation (link), glutaryl-CoA is oxidized to (E)-glutaconyl-CoA and oxidatively decarboxylated to crotonyl-CoA (both by the same enzyme), hydrated to 3-hydroxybutanoyl-CoA, oxidized to acetoacetyl-CoA, and cleaved to two acetyl-CoA.
• GABA-degradation: gabT and gabD
  • Comment: GABA (4-aminobutanoate) is consumed by an aminotransferase (known as gabT or puuE), which forms succinate semialdehyde, and dehydrogenase gabD, which forms succinate.
• putrescine-degradation: putrescine-to-GABA and GABA-degradation
  • Comment: Gamma-aminobutyrate is a common intermediate.
• putrescine-to-GABA:
  • patA and patD
  • or puuA, puuB, puuC and puuD
  • or puo and patD
  • Comment: In pathway I or pathway V, putrescine aminotransferase (patA or spuC) forms 4-aminobutanal, and dehydrogenase patD forms GABA. In pathway II, putrescine is converted to GABA with glutamylated intermedates: puuA forms gamma-glutamyl-putrescine, an oxidase forms 4-(gamma-glutaminylamino)butanal, a dehydrogenase forms 4-(gamma-glutamylamino)butanoate, and a hydrolase releases glutamate and GABA. As part of pathway IV, putrescine oxidase (puo) forms 4-aminobutanal, which is probably converted to GABA by dehydrogenase patD.
• arginine-transport:
  • artJ, artM, artP and artQ
  • or bgtB and artP
  • or braC, braD, braE, braF and braG
  • or rocE
  • or AAP3
  • or CAT1
  • or Can1
  • Comment: Transporters were identified using: query: transporter:arginine:L-arginine:arg.

71 steps (48 with candidates)

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Step	Description	Best candidate	2nd candidate
artJ	L-arginine ABC transporter, periplasmic substrate-binding component ArtJ/HisJ/ArtI/AotJ/ArgT	b2309	b2310
artM	L-arginine ABC transporter, permease component 1 (ArtM/HisM/AotM)	b2307	b0861
artP	L-arginine ABC transporter, ATPase component ArtP/HisP/AotP/BgtA	b2306	b0864
artQ	L-arginine ABC transporter, permease component 2 (ArtQ/HisQ/AotQ)	b0862	b2308
adiA	arginine decarboxylase (AdiA/SpeA)	b4117	b2938
speB	agmatinase	b2937
puuA	glutamate-putrescine ligase	b1297	b3870
puuB	gamma-glutamylputrescine oxidase	b1301
puuC	gamma-glutamyl-gamma-aminobutyraldehyde dehydrogenase	b1300	b3588
puuD	gamma-glutamyl-gamma-aminobutyrate hydrolase	b1298
gabT	gamma-aminobutyrate transaminase	b2662	b1302
gabD	succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase	b1300	b2661
Alternative steps:
AAP3	L-arginine transporter AAP3
aguA	agmatine deiminase
aguB	N-carbamoylputrescine hydrolase
arcA	arginine deiminase
arcB	ornithine carbamoyltransferase	b0273	b4254
arcC	carbamate kinase	b0521	b2874
arg-monooxygenase	arginine 2-monooxygenase
aroD	L-arginine oxidase
aruF	ornithine/arginine N-succinyltransferase subunit AruAI (AruF)	b1747
aruG	ornithine/arginine N-succinyltransferase subunit AruAII (AruG)	b1747
aruH	L-arginine:pyruvate transaminase	b0600
aruI	2-ketoarginine decarboxylase	b3671	b0077
astA	arginine N-succinyltransferase	b1747
astB	N-succinylarginine dihydrolase	b1745
astC	succinylornithine transaminase	b1748	b3359
astD	succinylglutamate semialdehyde dehydrogenase	b1746	b2661
astE	succinylglutamate desuccinylase	b1744
atoB	acetyl-CoA C-acetyltransferase	b2224	b2844
bgtB	L-arginine ABC transporter, fused substrate-binding and permease components (BgtB/BgtAB)
braC	ABC transporter for glutamate, histidine, arginine, and other amino acids, substrate-binding component BraC	b3460	b3458
braD	ABC transporter for glutamate, histidine, arginine, and other amino acids, permease component 1 (BraD)	b3457
braE	ABC transporter for glutamate, histidine, arginine, and other amino acids, permease component 2 (BraE)	b3456
braF	ABC transporter for glutamate, histidine, arginine, and other amino acids, ATPase component 1 (BraF)	b3455
braG	ABC transporter for glutamate, histidine, arginine, and other amino acids, ATPase component 2 (BraG)	b3454	b3455
Can1	L-arginine transporter Can1
CAT1	L-arginine transporter CAT1
davD	glutarate semialdehyde dehydrogenase	b2661	b1415
davT	5-aminovalerate aminotransferase	b2662	b1302
ech	(S)-3-hydroxybutanoyl-CoA hydro-lyase	b1393	b3846
fadB	(S)-3-hydroxybutanoyl-CoA dehydrogenase	b3846	b2341
gbamidase	guanidinobutyramidase
gbuA	guanidinobutyrase	b2937
gcdG	succinyl-CoA:glutarate CoA-transferase	b2371	b2374
gcdH	glutaryl-CoA dehydrogenase
glaH	glutarate 2-hydroxylase, succinate-releasing (GlaH or CsiD)	b2659
kauB	4-guanidinobutyraldehyde dehydrogenase	b1300	b3588
lhgD	L-2-hydroxyglutarate dehydrogenase or oxidase (LhgD or LhgO)	b2660
ocd	ornithine cyclodeaminase
odc	L-ornithine decarboxylase	b0693	b2965
oraE	D-ornithine 4,5-aminomutase, beta (E) subunit
oraS	D-ornithine 4,5-aminomutase, alpha (S) subunit
ord	2,4-diaminopentanoate dehydrogenase
orr	ornithine racemase
ortA	2-amino-4-oxopentanoate thiolase, alpha subunit
ortB	2-amino-4-oxopentanoate thiolase, beta subunit
patA	putrescine aminotransferase (PatA/SpuC)	b3073	b1302
patD	gamma-aminobutyraldehyde dehydrogenase	b1444	b1300
prdA	D-proline reductase, prdA component
prdB	D-proline reductase, prdB component
prdC	D-proline reductase, electron transfer component PrdC
prdF	proline racemase
PRO3	pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase	b0386
puo	putrescine oxidase	b1386
put1	proline dehydrogenase	b1014
putA	L-glutamate 5-semialdeyde dehydrogenase	b1014	b1415
rocA	1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate dehydrogenase	b1014	b1415
rocD	ornithine aminotransferase	b1302	b2662
rocE	L-arginine permease	b0260	b2156
rocF	arginase

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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.