Finding step proP for L-proline catabolism in Novosphingobium fuchskuhlense FNE08-7
3 candidates for proP: proline:H+ symporter ProP
Score | Gene | Description | Similar to | Id. | Cov. | Bits | Other hit | Other id. | Other bits |
med | AQZ52_RS16895 | MFS transporter | Ectoine/proline transporter ProP (characterized) | 34% | 85% | 208.4 | TphA aka ProP, component of The Icm/Dot or Dot/Icm multicomponent protein secretion system. IcmS and IcmW form a complex that interacts with and may translocate substrate proteins (Ninio et al., 2005; De Buck et al., 2007; Cambronne and Roy, 2007). The crystal structure of the IcmR-IcmQ complex has been solved (Raychaudhury et al., 2009). Legionella pneumophila survives and replicates inside host cells by secreting ~300 effectors through the defective in organelle trafficking (Dot)/intracellular multiplication (Icm) type IVB secretion system (T4BSS). Ghosal et al. 2019, using electron cryotomography mapped the location of the core and accessory components of the Legionella core transmembrane subcomplex, revealing a well-ordered central channel that opens into a large, windowed secretion chamber with an unusual 13-fold symmetry. Immunofluorescence microscopy deciphered an early-stage assembly process that begins with the targeting of Dot/Icm components to the bacterial poles. Polar targeting of this T4BSS is mediated by two Dot/Icm proteins, DotU and IcmF, that are homologues of the T6SS membrane complex components TssL and TssM, suggesting that the Dot/Icm T4BSS is a hybrid system. Thus, the Dot/Icm complex assembles in an 'axial-to-peripheral' pattern | 33% | 204.1 |
lo | AQZ52_RS07270 | MFS transporter | Glycine betaine/proline/ectoine/pipecolic acid transporter OusA; Osmoprotectant uptake system A (characterized) | 39% | 65% | 234.6 | The acetate/monochloroacetate (haloacid) permease, Deh4p (Km = 5.5 mμM for acetate; 9 mμM for monochloroacetate) | 41% | 415.6 |
lo | AQZ52_RS12650 | MFS transporter | proline porter II (characterized) | 33% | 66% | 200.7 | The acetate/monochloroacetate (haloacid) permease, Deh4p (Km = 5.5 mμM for acetate; 9 mμM for monochloroacetate) | 43% | 426.8 |
Confidence: high confidence medium confidence low confidence
transporter – transporters and PTS systems are shaded because predicting their specificity is particularly challenging.
GapMind searches the predicted proteins for candidates by using ublast (a fast alternative to protein BLAST) to find similarities to characterized proteins or by using HMMer to find similarities to enzyme models (usually from TIGRFams). For alignments to characterized proteins (from ublast), scores of 44 bits correspond to an expectation value (E) of about 0.001.
Definition of step proP
- Curated sequence CH_024324: proline porter II. Proline/betaine transporter; Proline porter II; PPII. (Proline/glycine-betaine):(H+/Na+) symporter, ProP (also transports taurine, ectoine, pipecolate, proline-betaine, N,N-dimethylglycine, carnitine, and 1-carboxymethyl-pyridinium) (subject to osmotic activation). Transmembrane helix I and periplasmic loop 1 are involved in osmosensing and osmoprotectant transport. osmolyte:H+ symporter ProP. osmolyte:H+ symporter ProP
- Curated sequence Q47421: Glycine betaine/proline/ectoine/pipecolic acid transporter OusA; Osmoprotectant uptake system A
- Curated sequence Q79VC4: Ectoine/proline transporter ProP
Or cluster all characterized proP proteins
This GapMind analysis is from Sep 24 2021. The underlying query database was built on Sep 17 2021.
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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