GapMind for catabolism of small carbon sources

 

D-ribose catabolism in Bacillus altitudinis 41KF2b

Best path

rbsA, rbsB, rbsC, rbsK

Rules

Overview: Ribose degradation in GapMind is based on the MetaCyc pathway ribose phosphorylation (link), which yields the central metabolic intermediate D-ribofuranose 5-phosphate, or on uptake by a phosphotransferase system.

14 steps (11 with candidates)

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Step Description Best candidate 2nd candidate
rbsA D-ribose ABC transporter, ATPase component RbsA BA79_RS08570 BA79_RS09630
rbsB D-ribose ABC transporter, substrate-binding component RbsB BA79_RS08580
rbsC D-ribose ABC transporter, permease component RbsC BA79_RS08575 BA79_RS09625
rbsK ribokinase BA79_RS08560
Alternative steps:
BT2809 D-ribose transporter
frcA D-ribose ABC transporter, ATPase component FrcA BA79_RS08570 BA79_RS09630
frcB D-ribose ABC transporter, substrate-binding component FrcB
frcC D-ribose ABC transporter, permease component FrcC BA79_RS08575
fru2-IIA D-ribose PTS, IIA component BA79_RS01865
fru2-IIB D-ribose PTS, IIB component BA79_RS18480 BA79_RS01865
fru2-IIC D-ribose PTS, IIC component BA79_RS01865 BA79_RS12325
LmGT2 D-ribose transporter LmGT2
PLT5 D-ribose transporter PLT5 BA79_RS08505 BA79_RS10235
rbsU probable D-ribose transporter RbsU BA79_RS11210

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 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 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