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L-glutamate catabolism in Klebsiella michiganensis M5al

Best path

gltI, gltJ, gltK, gltL, aspA

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 (25 with candidates)

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Step Description Best candidate 2nd candidate
gltI L-glutamate ABC transporter, substrate-binding component (GltI/AatJ) BWI76_RS08110
gltJ L-glutamate ABC transporter, permease component 1 (gltJ/aatQ) BWI76_RS08105 BWI76_RS05950
gltK L-glutamate ABC transporter, permease component 1 (gltK/aatM) BWI76_RS08100 BWI76_RS18355
gltL L-glutamate ABC transporter, ATPase component (GltL/GluA/BztD/GlnQ/AatP/PEB1C) BWI76_RS08095 BWI76_RS16795
aspA L-aspartate ammonia-lyase BWI76_RS02330 BWI76_RS16270
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) BWI76_RS18355 BWI76_RS07580
aapP ABC transporter for amino acids (Asp/Asn/Glu/Pro/Leu), ATPase component AapP BWI76_RS08095 BWI76_RS08965
aapQ ABC transporter for amino acids (Asp/Asn/Glu/Pro/Leu), permease component 1 (AapQ)
acaP L-glutamate permease AcaP
braC ABC transporter for glutamate, histidine, arginine, and other amino acids, substrate-binding component BraC BWI76_RS26350 BWI76_RS26365
braD ABC transporter for glutamate, histidine, arginine, and other amino acids, permease component 1 (BraD) BWI76_RS26345 BWI76_RS07280
braE ABC transporter for glutamate, histidine, arginine, and other amino acids, permease component 2 (BraE) BWI76_RS26340 BWI76_RS07275
braF ABC transporter for glutamate, histidine, arginine, and other amino acids, ATPase component 1 (BraF) BWI76_RS26335 BWI76_RS07270
braG ABC transporter for glutamate, histidine, arginine, and other amino acids, ATPase component 2 (BraG) BWI76_RS26330 BWI76_RS05975
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) BWI76_RS18355
dmeA L-glutamate transporter DmeA
fumD (S)-2-methylmalate dehydratase (mesaconase) BWI76_RS16275 BWI76_RS16115
gdhA glutamate dehydrogenase, NAD-dependent BWI76_RS13195 BWI76_RS11610
glmE L-glutamate mutase, E component BWI76_RS08480
glmS L-glutamate mutase, S component BWI76_RS08490
glnP L-glutamate ABC transporter, fused permease and substrate-binding components GlnP
gltP L-glutamate:cation symporter GltP/GltT BWI76_RS02105 BWI76_RS08460
gltS L-glutamate:Na+ symporter GltS BWI76_RS27520
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) BWI76_RS18355 BWI76_RS10580
gluD L-glutamate ABC transporter, permease component 2 (GluD) BWI76_RS10280 BWI76_RS08970
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 BWI76_RS08475
mcl (S)-citramalyl-CoA pyruvate-lyase BWI76_RS04445
peb1A L-glutamate ABC transporter, substrate-binding component Peb1A BWI76_RS05960
peb1B L-glutamate ABC transporter, permease component Peb1B BWI76_RS18355 BWI76_RS10375
yveA L-glutamate:H+ symporter YveA

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