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Pathway Description
Methionine Biosynthesis
Escherichia coli
Category:
Metabolite Pathway
Sub-Category:
Metabolic
Created: 2015-03-18
Last Updated: 2025-11-10
This pathway shows the biosynthesis of methionine, which is an energy-costly process. Lysine biosynthesis produces L-Aspartate-semialdehyde, which later on is catalyzed to L-homoserine by bifunctional aspartokinase (also named homoserine dehydrogenase) 1 and 2. Homoserine is then activated by O-succinylation to form O-succinyl-L-homoserine via homoserine O-succinyltransferase (metA). Combining with L-cysteine, O-succinyl-L-homoserine form L-cystathionine and succinic acid by cystathionine gamma-synthase (metB). Cleavage of L-cystathionine by cystathionine beta-lyase (metC) or Protein MalY(as ) generates two small molecules: homocysteine and 2-aminoprop-2-enoate. Methionine synthase(MetH) or 5-methyltetrahydropteroyltriglutamate--homocysteine methyltransferase(MetE) will catalyzehomocysteine to form the final product: methionine. In E.coli, MetH can only function with existence of cobalamin (Vitamin B12), which can be available in the guy; without cobalamin, MetE will not be repressed so that it will catalyze the methionine. Methionine can be transported out of cell (into periplasmic space) by leucine efflux transporter.
References
Methionine Biosynthesis References
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Born TL, Blanchard JS: Enzyme-catalyzed acylation of homoserine: mechanistic characterization of the Escherichia coli metA-encoded homoserine transsuccinylase. Biochemistry. 1999 Oct 26;38(43):14416-23. doi: 10.1021/bi991710o.
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Duchange N, Zakin MM, Ferrara P, Saint-Girons I, Park I, Tran SV, Py MC, Cohen GN: Structure of the metJBLF cluster in Escherichia coli K12. Sequence of the metB structural gene and of the 5'- and 3'-flanking regions of the metBL operon. J Biol Chem. 1983 Dec 25;258(24):14868-71.
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Pubmed: 9278503
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Pubmed: 3513164
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Pubmed: 9097039
Zakin MM, Duchange N, Ferrara P, Cohen GN: Nucleotide sequence of the metL gene of Escherichia coli. Its product, the bifunctional aspartokinase ii-homoserine dehydrogenase II, and the bifunctional product of the thrA gene, aspartokinase I-homoserine dehydrogenase I, derive from a common ancestor. J Biol Chem. 1983 Mar 10;258(5):3028-31.
Pubmed: 6298218
Katinka M, Cossart P, Sibilli L, Saint-Girons I, Chalvignac MA, Le Bras G, Cohen GN, Yaniv M: Nucleotide sequence of the thrA gene of Escherichia coli. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1980 Oct;77(10):5730-3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.77.10.5730.
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Pubmed: 390305
Oshima T, Aiba H, Baba T, Fujita K, Hayashi K, Honjo A, Ikemoto K, Inada T, Itoh T, Kajihara M, Kanai K, Kashimoto K, Kimura S, Kitagawa M, Makino K, Masuda S, Miki T, Mizobuchi K, Mori H, Motomura K, Nakamura Y, Nashimoto H, Nishio Y, Saito N, Horiuchi T, et al.: A 718-kb DNA sequence of the Escherichia coli K-12 genome corresponding to the 12.7-28.0 min region on the linkage map. DNA Res. 1996 Jun 30;3(3):137-55. doi: 10.1093/dnares/3.3.137.
Pubmed: 8905232
Old IG, Margarita D, Glass RE, Saint Girons I: Nucleotide sequence of the metH gene of Escherichia coli K-12 and comparison with that of Salmonella typhimurium LT2. Gene. 1990 Mar 1;87(1):15-21. doi: 10.1016/0378-1119(90)90490-i.
Pubmed: 2185137
Banerjee RV, Johnston NL, Sobeski JK, Datta P, Matthews RG: Cloning and sequence analysis of the Escherichia coli metH gene encoding cobalamin-dependent methionine synthase and isolation of a tryptic fragment containing the cobalamin-binding domain. J Biol Chem. 1989 Aug 15;264(23):13888-95.
Pubmed: 2668277
Drummond JT, Loo RR, Matthews RG: Electrospray mass spectrometric analysis of the domains of a large enzyme: observation of the occupied cobalamin-binding domain and redefinition of the carboxyl terminus of methionine synthase. Biochemistry. 1993 Sep 14;32(36):9282-9. doi: 10.1021/bi00087a004.
Pubmed: 8369296
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