Glutamate metabolism
Contents
Proteins involved in glutamate metabolism
Transport systems
Metabolic enzymes
Regulators
- Key transcriptional regulators of nitrogen metabolism: GlnR, GltC, TnrA
- Additional transcriptional regulators: AhrC, RocR, CcpA, Fur
- Control of ammonium uptake: GlnK
Relevant SubtiWiki pages
- Biosynthesis/ acquisition of amino acids
- Utilization of amino acids
- TnrA regulon
- GlnR regulon
- GltC regulon
- Trigger enzymes
Glutamate metabolism in SubtiPathways: Ammonium/ glutamate
Additional websites
Labs studying glutamate metabolism
- Fabian Commichau, Göttingen, Germany
- Susan Fisher, Boston
- Linc Sonenshein, Boston
- Jörg Stülke, Göttingen
Important publications
Reviews
Katrin Gunka, Fabian M Commichau
Control of glutamate homeostasis in Bacillus subtilis: a complex interplay between ammonium assimilation, glutamate biosynthesis and degradation.
Mol Microbiol: 2012, 85(2);213-24
[PubMed:22625175]
[WorldCat.org]
[DOI]
(I p)
Fabian M Commichau, Jörg Stülke
Trigger enzymes: bifunctional proteins active in metabolism and in controlling gene expression.
Mol Microbiol: 2008, 67(4);692-702
[PubMed:18086213]
[WorldCat.org]
[DOI]
(P p)
Abraham L Sonenshein
Control of key metabolic intersections in Bacillus subtilis.
Nat Rev Microbiol: 2007, 5(12);917-27
[PubMed:17982469]
[WorldCat.org]
[DOI]
(I p)
Fabian M Commichau, Karl Forchhammer, Jörg Stülke
Regulatory links between carbon and nitrogen metabolism.
Curr Opin Microbiol: 2006, 9(2);167-72
[PubMed:16458044]
[WorldCat.org]
[DOI]
(P p)
S H Fisher
Regulation of nitrogen metabolism in Bacillus subtilis: vive la différence!
Mol Microbiol: 1999, 32(2);223-32
[PubMed:10231480]
[WorldCat.org]
[DOI]
(P p)
Important original publications
Anne Krog, Tonje Marita Bjerkan Heggeset, Trond Erling Ellingsen, Trygve Brautaset
Functional characterization of key enzymes involved in L-glutamate synthesis and degradation in the thermotolerant and methylotrophic bacterium Bacillus methanolicus.
Appl Environ Microbiol: 2013, 79(17);5321-8
[PubMed:23811508]
[WorldCat.org]
[DOI]
(I p)