Finding step artQ for L-arginine catabolism in Leeuwenhoekiella blandensis MED217
No candidates for artQ: L-arginine ABC transporter, permease component 2 (ArtQ/HisQ/AotQ)
GapMind classifies a step as low confidence even if it does not find any candidates. You can still try to find candidates by using Curated BLAST (which searches the 6-frame translation) or by text search of the annotations (which may indicate weak homology, under 30% identity or 50% coverage, that GapMind does not consider). See the links below.
Definition of step artQ
- Curated sequence Q9HU30: Probable permease of ABC transporter, component of Amino acid transporter, PA5152-PA5155. Probably transports numerous amino acids including lysine, arginine, histidine, D-alanine and D-valine (Johnson et al. 2008). Regulated by ArgR
- Curated sequence CH_107317: arginine/ornithine transport protein. AotQ, component of Arginine/ornithine (but not lysine) porter
- Curated sequence P0A2I9: Histidine transport system permease protein HisQ. Histidine transport system permease protein HisQ aka STM2353, component of Histidine/arginine/lysine/ornithine porter (Heuveling et al. 2014). In contrast to some homologous homodimeric systems, the heterodimeric histidine transporter of Salmonella enterica Typhimurium
- Curated sequence P0AE34: Arginine ABC transporter permease protein ArtQ. Arginine transport system permease protein ArtQ aka B0862, component of Arginine porter. L-arginine ABC transporter membrane subunit ArtQ (EC 7.4.2.1). L-arginine ABC transporter membrane subunit ArtQ (EC 7.4.2.1)
- Curated sequence P52094: Histidine transport system permease protein HisQ. Histidine transport system permease protein HisQ, component of Histidine/Arginine/Lysine (basic amino acid) uptake porter, HisJ/ArgT/HisP/HisM/HisQ [R, R, C, M, M, respectively] (Gilson et al. 1982). HisJ binds L-His (preferred), but 1-methyl-L-His and 3-methyl-L-His also bind, while the dipeptide carnosine binds weakly; D-histidine and the histidine degradation products, histamine, urocanic acid and imidazole do not bind. L-Arg, homo-L-Arg, and post-translationally modified methylated Arg-analogs also bind with the exception of symmetric dimethylated-L-Arg. L-Lys and L-Orn show weaker interactions with HisJ and methylated and acetylated Lys variants show poor binding.The carboxylate groups of these amino acids and their variants are essential. lysine/arginine/ornithine ABC transporter / histidine ABC transporter, membrane subunit HisQ (EC 7.4.2.1)
- Curated sequence BPHYT_RS07675: ABC transporter for L-Arginine, permease component 2
- Curated sequence GFF4244: ABC transporter for L-Arginine, permease component 1
- Curated sequence Pf1N1B4_3432: ABC transporter for L-Arginine and L-Citrulline, permease component 1
- Curated sequence AO353_03050: ABC transporter for L-Arginine and L-Citrulline, permease component 2
- Curated sequence AO356_18705: L-Arginine ABC transporter, permease component 2
- Curated sequence Pf6N2E2_5661: L-Arginine ABC transporter, permease protein AotQ
- Ignore hits to AO356_09905 when looking for 'other' hits (ABC transporter for L-Lysine, permease component 1)
- Ignore hits to Pf6N2E2_2959 when looking for 'other' hits (ABC transporter for L-Lysine, permease component 1)
- Ignore hits to AO356_05500 when looking for 'other' hits (ABC transporter for L-Lysine, permease component 1)
- Comment: Ignore closely related lysine transporters in P. fluorescens (which may well transport arginine; AO356_09905 has a subtle defect in arginine utilization)
Or cluster all characterized artQ proteins
This GapMind analysis is from Sep 24 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
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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).
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by Morgan Price, Arkin group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory