GapMind for Amino acid biosynthesis

 

L-asparagine biosynthesis in Flammeovirga pacifica WPAGA1

Best path

aspS2, gatA, gatB, gatC

Rules

Overview: Asparagine biosynthesis in GapMind is based on MetaCyc pathways L-asparagine biosynthesis I (link), II (link), or III (tRNA-dependent) (link). In pathways I or II, aspartate is amidated directly, with glutamine or ammonia as the nitrogen source. In pathway III, aspartate is ligated to tRNA(Asn) and then amidated to Asn-tRNA(Asn).

6 steps (5 with candidates)

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Step Description Best candidate 2nd candidate
aspS2 aspartyl-tRNA(Asp/Asn) synthetase NH26_RS15055
gatA aspartyl/glutamyl-tRNA(Asn/Gln) amidotransferase subunit A NH26_RS11105
gatB aspartyl/glutamyl-tRNA(Asn/Gln) amidotransferase subunit B NH26_RS09540
gatC aspartyl/glutamyl-tRNA(Asn/Gln) amidotransferase subunit C NH26_RS15170 NH26_RS08010
Alternative steps:
asnA aspartate--ammonia ligase
asnB asparagine synthase (glutamine-hydrolysing) NH26_RS18135

Confidence: high confidence medium confidence low confidence
? – known gap: despite the lack of a good candidate for this step, this organism (or a related organism) performs the pathway

This GapMind analysis is from Jul 26 2024. The underlying query database was built on Jul 25 2024.

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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