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Thus, HSERO_RS20920 is a high-confidence candidate for both AroB and AroL. When analyzing a new genome, GapMind uses usearch with global alignment (16) to quickly find proteins in the new genome that are at least 50% identical to the marker genes and with alignment coverage of at least 70%. GapMind only searches for the top 20 hits (-maxaccepts 20 -maxrejects 20).

If these requirements are violated, then GapMind issues a warning. We chose not to give amino acids as requirements (such as a serine requirement for cysteine biosynthesis), because GapMind already shows if an amino acid might be required for growth. However, we do use requirements to define dependencies on intermediates. For example, some organisms form cysteine from phosphoserine instead of from serine; if this pathway is on the best path, then GapMind will check if serA and serC are present. As another example, GapMind lbl komodo will issue a warning if the organism is predicted to synthesize methionine from cysteine (transsulfuration) and also cysteine from methionine (reverse transsulfuration).

1. Thetaiotaomicron, we had previously identified that BT3761 participates in arginine biosynthesis (20).
2. Variant pathways and variant enzymes continue to be discovered, so accurate prediction of microbial growth capabilities from genome sequences alone may not yet be possible (3).
3. Gaps are highlighted by color, and known gaps are marked (such as serA or serB in Fig. 6).
4. BT3717 was identified as a candidate for acetylornithine carbamoyltransferase, but BT3717 is nearly identical to a characterized enzyme from Bacteroides fragilis that acts on N-succinylornithine instead (22).
5. BT3760 was identified as a moderate-confidence candidate because it is less than 40% identical to any characterized enzyme.
6. To indicate that a gap may correspond to novel biology (instead of a missing capability), GapMind reports if a related microbe that has the same gap is known to grow in minimal media.
7. In conclusion, GapMind quickly identifies potential pathways for amino acid biosynthesis in a microbial genome.

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Because of this, GapMind implicitly assumes that all intermediates in central metabolism are available. This is likely to be true if the microbe contains most of the amino acid biosynthesis pathways, but it might not be true for microbes that have many auxotrophies, such as Lactobacillus helveticus CNRZ 32. GapMind also assumes that other amino acids are available, but if this is not likely to be the case, it should be obvious from GapMind’s results.

For 96 of the 148 microbes, the set included another microbe from the same family (as classified by GTDB). We focused on the gaps that were low-confidence steps and that were confirmed by analyzing the six-frame translation. The 96 microbes had 118 such gaps, and 96 of these steps (81%) were also gaps in another microbe from the same family.

The best path for an amino acid is the one that gives the best score. If two paths have the same score, then GapMind considers a secondary score that gives weights of −2, −0.1, and +1 to low-, medium-, and high-confidence steps. If there is still a tie, then GapMind chooses the longer path.

1. These low-confidence candidates are shown on the GapMind website because they may be useful for filling gaps in amino acid biosynthesis pathways.
2. Seventeen of the remaining gaps can be explained; the other 14 gaps are due to our limited understanding of amino acid biosynthesis in bacteria.
3. Given the confidence levels for the candidates, GapMind computes confidence levels for steps and pathways and finds the highest-confidence pathway for synthesizing each amino acid.
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5. The best path for an amino acid is the one that gives the best score.
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First, at the beginning of the pathway, no candidates for N-acetylglutamate synthase (ArgA or ArgJ) were identified. Given the confidence levels for the candidates, GapMind computes confidence levels for steps and pathways and finds the highest-confidence pathway for synthesizing each amino acid. The confidence of a step is the highest confidence of any candidate for that step. Steps are considered low confidence even if they have no candidates at all.

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Genome sequences are available for tens of thousands of microbes. For most of these microbes, little is known about their physiology other than the condition under which they were isolated. If the microbe was isolated using a complex substrate, such as yeast extract, then nothing is known about its nutritional requirements.

GapMind’s matching of terms to curated descriptions is case-insensitive, and each match must begin and end at word boundaries. For some steps, we also identified specific sequences (by UniProt identifier) that are known to perform the step but are not curated in the databases that GapMind relies on. We identified 99 such sequences, mostly by using the fitness data but also from the literature. Helveticus requires lysine for growth (35), the biosynthetic pathway appears to be complete except for the acetyl-diaminopimelate aminotransferase DapX; GapMind identified a medium-confidence candidate for DapX.

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For instance, if a diverged candidate for a step is identified, then it is labeled as medium confidence; if this step is part of the most likely pathway, then it will be highlighted. The user can examine the results and decide if the pathway is likely to be present or not. We tried to include all known pathways for amino acid biosynthesis that begin with intermediates in central metabolism and that occur in bacteria or archaea. Because most free-living bacteria and archaea can probably make all 20 standard amino acids (3), we also allow pathways to use other amino acids as starting points. For example, many microorganisms synthesize cysteine from serine and sulfide. In our analysis, we found that the gaps in amino acid biosynthesis pathways were often conserved between related organisms.