PUBLICATION

Cross-species analysis of the glycolytic pathway by comparison of molecular interaction fields

Authors
Stein, M., Gabdoulline, R.R., and Wade, R.C.
ID
ZDB-PUB-100105-7
Date
2010
Source
Molecular Biosystems   6(1): 152-164 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Keywords
none
MeSH Terms
  • Protein Structure, Tertiary
  • Isoenzymes/chemistry
  • Isoenzymes/genetics
  • Isoenzymes/metabolism
  • Phylogeny
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Glucose-6-Phosphate Isomerase/chemistry
  • Glucose-6-Phosphate Isomerase/genetics
  • Glucose-6-Phosphate Isomerase/metabolism
  • Humans
  • Models, Biological
  • Animals
  • Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
  • Triose-Phosphate Isomerase/chemistry
  • Triose-Phosphate Isomerase/genetics
  • Triose-Phosphate Isomerase/metabolism
  • Glycolysis/genetics
  • Glycolysis/physiology*
  • Signal Transduction/genetics
  • Signal Transduction/physiology*
  • Computational Biology
  • Phosphoglycerate Mutase/chemistry
  • Phosphoglycerate Mutase/genetics
  • Phosphoglycerate Mutase/metabolism
  • Protein Structure, Secondary
  • Plant Proteins/chemistry
  • Plant Proteins/genetics
  • Plant Proteins/metabolism
  • Phosphofructokinases/chemistry
  • Phosphofructokinases/genetics
  • Phosphofructokinases/metabolism
PubMed
20024078 Full text @ Mol. Biosyst.
Abstract
The electrostatic potential of an enzyme is a key determinant of its substrate interactions and catalytic turnover. Here we invoke comparative analysis of protein electrostatic potentials, along with sequence and structural analysis, to classify and characterize all the enzymes in an entire pathway across a set of different organisms. The electrostatic potentials of the enzymes from the glycolytic pathway of 11 eukaryotes were analyzed by qPIPSA (quantitative protein interaction property similarity analysis). The comparison allows the functional assignment of neuron-specific isoforms of triosephosphate isomerase from zebrafish, the identification of unusual protein surface interaction properties of the mosquito glucose-6-phosphate isomerase and the functional annotation of ATP-dependent phosphofructokinases and cofactor-dependent phosphoglycerate mutases from plants. We here show that plants possess two parallel pathways to convert glucose. One is similar to glycolysis in humans, the other is specialized to let plants adapt to their environmental conditions. We use differences in electrostatic potentials to estimate kinetic parameters for the triosephosphate isomerases from nine species for which published parameters are not available. Along the core glycolytic pathway, phosphoglycerate mutase displays the most conserved electrostatic potential. The largest cross-species variations are found for glucose-6-phosphate isomerase, enolase and fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase. The extent of conservation of electrostatic potentials along the pathway is consistent with the absence of a single rate-limiting step in glycolysis.
Genes / Markers
Figures
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Antibodies
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping