GapMind for catabolism of small carbon sources

 

D-gluconate catabolism in Sinorhizobium meliloti 1021

Best path

gntA, gntB, gntC, gntK, edd, eda

Also see fitness data for the top candidates

Rules

Overview: In most bacteria, gluconate degradation proceeds via D-gluconate 6-phosphate and either the Entner-Doudoroff pathway or the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway (link). Alternatively, gluconate can be oxidized in the periplasm to 2-ketogluconate before uptake (link).

19 steps (10 with candidates)

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Step Description Best candidate 2nd candidate
gntA gluconate TRAP transporter, small permease component SMa0249 SM_b20034
gntB gluconate TRAP transporter, large permease component SMa0250 SM_b20035
gntC gluconate TRAP transporter, periplasmic solute-binding component SMa0252 SM_b20036
gntK D-gluconate kinase SMa0514 SM_b21119
edd phosphogluconate dehydratase SMc03068 SMc04045
eda 2-keto-3-deoxygluconate 6-phosphate aldolase SMc03153 SMc02043
Alternative steps:
gadh1 gluconate 2-dehydrogenase flavoprotein subunit
gadh2 gluconate 2-dehydrogenase cytochrome c subunit SM_b20402 SMc00086
gadh3 gluconate 2-dehydrogenase subunit 3
ght3 gluconate transporter Ght3
gnd 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, decarboxylating SMc04262
gntEIIA gluconate PTS system, IIA component SMc02753
gntEIIB gluconate PTS system, IIB component
gntEIIC gluconate PTS system, IIC component
gntEIID gluconate PTS system, IID component
gntT gluconate:H+ symporter GntT
kguD 2-keto-6-phosphogluconate reductase SMc01943 SMa2137
kguK 2-ketogluconokinase
kguT 2-ketogluconate transporter

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).

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