References and Anabolisj Reading Baumann, P. Google Scholar Perl. Amino acid anabolism stalling of the ribosome will allow complementary strands 2 and 3 to form a hairpin loop. Metabolic pathway Metabolic network Primary nutritional groups.

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Aerobic nitrogen-fixing organisms must devise special conditions or arrangements in order to protect their enzyme. Nitrogen-fixing organisms can either exist independently or pair up with a plant host:.

BSC Microbiology for Health Sciences Sp21 Kagle. Search site Search Search. Go back to previous article. Sign in. Anabolic Pathways The following material is adapted from Kaiser Microbiology Anabolism, often called biosynthesis, is the metabolic production of molecules used in the structure and function of the cell from simpler organic molecules.

Carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids can be used as energy sources; metabolites involved in energy production can be used to synthesize carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, nucleic acids, and cellular structures. Kaiser Microbiology. Amino Acid Biosynthesis This section is adapted from General Microbiology at Boundless Amino acids are the structural units that make up proteins.

In transamination, an amino group is transferred from glutamate to an organic acid to form an amino acid Jeanne Kagle Glutamate and glutamine, on the other hand, can be formed by direct addition of ammonium to alpha-ketoglutarate or glutamate to form glutamate or glutamine, respectively.

Nitrogen is assimilated into the cell through amination of alpha-ketoglutarate to form glutamate and glutamine. Nitrogen Assimilation This section is adapted from content contributed by Linda Bruslind Assimilation Assimilation is a reductive process by which an inorganic form of nitrogen is reduced to organic nitrogen compounds such as amino acids and nucleotides, allowing for cellular growth and reproduction.

Nitrogen Fixation Nitrogen fixation describes the conversion of the relatively inert dinitrogen gas N2 into ammonia NH3 , a much more useable form of nitrogen for most life forms.

Nitrogen-fixing organisms can either exist independently or pair up with a plant host: Symbiotic nitrogen-fixing organisms : these bacteria partner up with a plant, to provide them with an environment appropriate for the functioning of their nitrogenase enzyme.

The plant provides both the location to fix nitrogen, as well as additional nutrients to support the energy-taxing process of nitrogen fixation. It has been shown that the bacteria and the host exchange chemical recognition signals that facilitate the relationship.

One of the best known bacteria in this category is Rhizobium , which partners up with plants of the legume family clover, soybeans, alfalfa, etc. Legumes are well known for their high protein content, and their partnership with the nitrogen-fixing Rhizobium contributes to their ability to make large quantities of these nitrogen-rich compounds.

Free-living nitrogen-fixing organisms : these organisms, both bacteria and archaea, fix nitrogen for their own use that ends up being shared when the organisms dies or is ingested.

When histidine charged tRNA levels are low in the cell the ribosome will stall at the string of His residues in block 1. This stalling of the ribosome will allow complementary strands 2 and 3 to form a hairpin loop. The loop formed by strands 2 and 3 forms an anti-terminator and translation of the his genes will continue and histidine will be produced.

However, when histidine charged tRNA levels are high the ribosome will not stall at block 1, this will not allow strands 2 and 3 to form a hairpin. Instead strands 3 and 4 will form a hairpin loop further downstream of the ribosome. When the ribosome is removed the His genes will not be translated and histidine will not be produced by the cell.

Serine is the first amino acid in this family to be produced; it is then modified to produce both glycine and cysteine and many other biologically important molecules.

Serine is formed from 3-phosphoglycerate in the following pathway:. The conversion from 3-phosphoglycerate to phosphohydroxyl-pyruvate is achieved by the enzyme phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase.

This enzyme is the key regulatory step in this pathway. Phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase is regulated by the concentration of serine in the cell. At high concentrations this enzyme will be inactive and serine will not be produced.

At low concentrations of serine the enzyme will be fully active and serine will be produced by the bacterium. Glycine is biosynthesized from serine, catalyzed by serine hydroxymethyltransferase SHMT.

The enzyme effectively replaces a hydroxymethyl group with a hydrogen atom. SHMT is coded by the gene glyA.

The regulation of glyA is complex and is known to incorporate serine, glycine, methionine, purines, thymine, and folates, The full mechanism has yet to be elucidated. Homocysteine is a coactivator of glyA and must act in concert with MetR. PurR binds directly to the control region of glyA and effectively turns the gene off so that glycine will not be produced by the bacterium.

The genes required for the synthesis of cysteine are coded for on the cys regulon. The integration of sulfur is positively regulated by CysB. Effective inducers of this regulon are N-acetyl-serine NAS and very small amounts of reduced sulfur.

CysB functions by binding to DNA half sites on the cys regulon. These half sites differ in quantity and arrangement depending on the promoter of interest. There is however one half site that is conserved.

It lies just upstream of the site of the promoter. There are also multiple accessory sites depending on the promoter. In the absence of the inducer, NAS, CysB will bind the DNA and cover many of the accessory half sites. Without the accessory half sites the regulon cannot be transcribed and cysteine will not be produced.

It is believed that the presence of NAS causes CysB to undergo a conformational change. This conformational change allows CysB to bind properly to all the half sites and causes the recruitment of the RNA polymerase.

The RNA polymerase will then transcribe the cys regulon and cysteine will be produced. Further regulation is required for this pathway, however. CysB can down regulate its own transcription by binding to its own DNA sequence and blocking the RNA polymerase.

In this case NAS will act to disallow the binding of CysB to its own DNA sequence. OAS is a precursor of NAS, cysteine itself can inhibit CysE which functions to create OAS. Without the necessary OAS, NAS will not be produced and cysteine will not be produced. There are two other negative regulators of cysteine.

These are the molecules sulfide and thiosulfate , they act to bind to CysB and they compete with NAS for the binding of CysB. Pyruvate, the result of glycolysis , can feed into both the TCA cycle and fermentation processes. Reactions beginning with either one or two molecules of pyruvate lead to the synthesis of alanine, valine, and leucine.

Feedback inhibition of final products is the main method of inhibition, and, in E. coli , the ilvEDA operon also plays a part in this regulation. Alanine is produced by the transamination of one molecule of pyruvate using two alternate steps: 1 conversion of glutamate to α-ketoglutarate using a glutamate-alanine transaminase, and 2 conversion of valine to α-ketoisovalerate via Transaminase C.

Not much is known about the regulation of alanine synthesis. The only definite method is the bacterium's ability to repress Transaminase C activity by either valine or leucine see ilvEDA operon. Other than that, alanine biosynthesis does not seem to be regulated.

Valine is produced by a four-enzyme pathway. It begins with the condensation of two equivalents of pyruvate catalyzed by acetohydroxy acid synthase yielding α-acetolactate. This is catalyzed by acetohydroxy isomeroreductase.

The third step is the dehydration of α, β-dihydroxyisovalerate catalyzed by dihydroxy acid dehydrase. In the fourth and final step, the resulting α-ketoisovalerate undergoes transamination catalyzed either by an alanine-valine transaminase or a glutamate-valine transaminase.

Valine biosynthesis is subject to feedback inhibition in the production of acetohydroxy acid synthase. The leucine synthesis pathway diverges from the valine pathway beginning with α-ketoisovalerate. α-Isopropylmalate synthase catalyzes this condensation with acetyl CoA to produce α-isopropylmalate.

An isomerase converts α-isopropylmalate to β-isopropylmalate. The final step is the transamination of the α-ketoisocaproate by the action of a glutamate-leucine transaminase.

Leucine, like valine, regulates the first step of its pathway by inhibiting the action of the α-Isopropylmalate synthase. The genes that encode both the dihydroxy acid dehydrase used in the creation of α-ketoisovalerate and Transaminase E, as well as other enzymes are encoded on the ilvEDA operon.

This operon is bound and inactivated by valine , leucine , and isoleucine. Isoleucine is not a direct derivative of pyruvate, but is produced by the use of many of the same enzymes used to produce valine and, indirectly, leucine.

When one of these amino acids is limited, the gene furthest from the amino-acid binding site of this operon can be transcribed. When a second of these amino acids is limited, the next-closest gene to the binding site can be transcribed, and so forth.

The commercial production of amino acids usually relies on mutant bacteria that overproduce individual amino acids using glucose as a carbon source. Some amino acids are produced by enzymatic conversions of synthetic intermediates.

Aspartic acid is produced by the addition of ammonia to fumarate using a lyase. See Template:Leucine metabolism in humans — this diagram does not include the pathway for β-leucine synthesis via leucine 2,3-aminomutase.

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Retrieved 28 July Annual Review of Microbiology. doi : PMID The physiology and biochemistry of prokaryotes 3rd ed. A subsequent inability for nitrogen assimilation is observed in derived metazoans.

A Great Deletion model is proposed here as a broad phenomenon generating the phenotype of amino acids essentiality followed, in metazoans, by organic nitrogen dependency. This phenomenon is probably associated to a relaxed selective pressure conferred by heterotrophy and, taking advantage of available homologous clustering tools, a complete and updated picture of it is provided.

Creation and analysis of groups of orthologous genes have been widely used for gene function prediction, evolutionary and divergence time studies [ 1 ].

Moreover, orthology is also a valuable source for evolutionary comprehension of pathways through phylogenetic analysis. In respect to a central issue on cellular metabolism, the order of appearance for universal cellular metabolisms was estimated by Cunchillos and Lecointre [ 2 , 3 ], with amino acid catabolism and anabolism being respectively the first and second pathways to appear, even earlier than glycolysis and gluconeogenesis.

The amino acids biosynthesis, rather than linear and universal series of reactions with homologues occurring in different organisms, sometimes relies on alternative pathways, as shown by Hernández-Montes et al. Moreover, gene loss and pathway depletion, important events in genome evolution, can be inferred from the orthologous groups through comparative genomics.

Today, a vast amount of information is provided by intensive genome sequencing, and the efforts of grouping homologous genes had reached great standards. More recent approaches for dietary requirement calculations, using amino acid oxidation as an indicator, reveal that the requirement is over five fold what the classical approaches indicated, and the requirement has now been determined for each of the nine human EAAs [ 9 ].

It is of general understanding that plant, as well as fungi, synthesize all amino acids required for protein synthesis and that evolutionary processes culminated in human inability to synthesize nine amino acids histidine, phenylalanine, tryptophan, valine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine and threonine , thus called essential amino acids EAAs , which must be obtained through diet.

Amino acids also constitute our source of organic nitrogen. There have been few attempts to understand why some amino acids have become essential. However, genome deletion events have happened in the past and many organisms have lost a number of important enzymes necessary for de novo biosynthetic pathways.

Hitherto, the pattern of loss versus retention for amino acids biosynthetic pathways was analyzed for a few protists and metazoans by Payne and Loomis [ 10 ]. They verified that the set of essential amino acids is the same in animals and protists. Curiously, most of the retained amino acids are intermediates in secondary pathways like purine ring biosynthesis and nitrogen metabolism.

Unfortunately these initiatives consider only proteins derived from complete genomes and thus a large amount of information is currently lost, with over 6 million remaining full-length proteins that belong to organisms with still incomplete genomes.

Here, we applied a methodology that takes into account all available protein information to depict, at phyla level, the EAA biosynthetic and nitrogen assimilation enzymes scenarios to inspect how and when amino acid auxotrophy has first appeared along evolution.

A Great Genomic Deletion model is proposed to explain the phenotypic inability to synthesize amino acids that appears independently in distinct phylogenetically distant clades of eukaryotes. Such events should be followed by subsequent steps of gene loss due to relaxed selective pressure in already incomplete pathways, leading to an eventual loss of all genes for a particular biosynthesis pathway in some clades.

Accordingly, in metazoans but Cnidaria, dependence on organic nitrogen accompanies the evolution of heterotrophy, thus organisms become dependent even on NEAA for supplying their nitrogen requirements. To determine the distribution of amino acid biosynthetic enzymes, a homologue clustering process was developed to allow the use of both complete and incomplete genomes [ 14 , 15 ].

The procedure starts with Seed Linkage software [ 14 ] that clusters cognate proteins from multiple organisms beginning with a single seed sequence through connectivity saturation with it. Since basal eukaryotes such as plants and fungi are autotrophic, sequences coding for all the enzymes used in the biosynthesis of EAAs from the plant Arabidopsis thaliana and the fungus Saccharomyces cerevisiae were manually inspected using KEGG Pathway and used as seeds to search for homologues.

Moreover, our group has been developing a procedure to enrich secondary databases such as COG [ 12 ] and KEGG Orthology to be published with UniRef50 clusters [ 16 ] available from UniProt, therefore allowing the inclusion of data from incompletely sequenced genomes.

Additional file 1 : Sequences and genome status distribution reflects the abundance of proteins derived from incomplete genomes and evidences the importance of their inclusion. In this work we took advantage of a home-built UniRef50 Enriched KEGG Orthology database UEKO to additionally cluster sequences with the seed sequences mentioned above.

Since these searches recruit sequences from diverse clades, which may or may not contain organisms with completely sequenced genomes, we represented this information in Figure 1 as: a black filled circles for phyla containing complete genomes; b grey filled circles comprise clades with at least one draft genome available, but no complete genome, and c empty circles represent phyla with no complete nor draft genomes.

Protein fragments are not included in the search for homologues because they may represent partial sequenced full length proteins at mRNA level or incompletely modeled from genome. Moreover since some full length proteins might have not been captured in databases due to high sequence divergence, a second search round used UniProt to query all clustered sequences.

This step also captures partial sequences entries labeled as fragments in UniProt which were approved by the coverage filtering applied see Methods for details. These additional significant hits are represented by triangles in Figure 1.

Furthermore, enzymes required for the biosynthesis of the indicated amino acids are ordered in the anabolic pathway from left to right. All pathways refer to EAAs biosynthesis except serine and glycine the rightmost ones used as experimental controls. Serine is represented with two alternative pathways observed in human and other eukaryotes: S 1 , from 3P-D-glycerate; and S 2 , from pyruvate.

Glycine is also represented by two pathways: G 1 and G 2 , both coming from serine; and G 3 , coming from threonine. As expected, serine and glycine biosynthesis were found to be potentially proficient in almost all phyla. This control supports the searching mechanism and attest for the efficacy of methods applied.

A few exceptions were observed and deserve comments: i Serine biosynthetic pathways was found to be absent in Rhodophyta, although the complete genome of Cyanidioschyzon merolae is available. We manually inspected this result with regular BLAST searches and did not find additional evidence, although a translation of partial CDS was obtained for glycine biosynthetic enzyme G1 Figure 1 , triangle ; ii Serine biosynthesis seems absent in Apicomplexa as well, a clade comprising two Plasmodium complete genomes lacking enzymes S1 and S4; iii Considering the animals, besides being able to find serine biosynthetic enzymes, we fail to support the NEAA character of glycine for Mollusca.

However, evidences could be obtained for ancient organisms such as Placozoa and Porifera. For the Microsporidia E. Thus, absence of evidence may not guarantee the absence of the gene. However, out of 28 phyla, discarding both the four clades with no genome project or in progress open circles and the ones with complete genome filled symbols , we could not provide evidence of glycine biosynthesis for two phyla Fornicata and Mollusca.

However evidence for serine has been provided in all of them. Essential amino acid anabolic pathways. Eukaryotic taxonomic tree displayed at phyla level.

Circles represent detection of complete proteins and triangles detection of complete and fragmented proteins. Black: phyla containing complete genomes; Grey: at most organisms with draft genomes; White: phyla with no complete or draft genomes.

Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ascomycota and Arabidopsis thaliana Streptophyta were used as seeds. The 4 distinct aminotransferases in phenylalanine pathway are: i aspartate aminotransferase ii histidinol-phosphate aminotransferase iii aromatic amino acid aminotransferase iv tyrosine aminotransferase.

The 4 distinct methyltransferases in methionine pathway are: i 5-methyltetrahydropteroyltriglutamate--homocysteine methyltransferase ii homocysteine S-methyltransferase iii betaine-homocysteine methyltransferase iv 5-methyltetrahydrofolate--homocysteine methyltransferase.

The 3 distinct transaminases in glycine pathway are: alanine-glyoxylate transaminase, serine-glyoxylate transaminase and serine-pyruvate transaminase. Data presented in Figure 1 clearly depicts the presence of complete biosynthetic pathways for EAAs in both plants Chlorophyta and Streptophyta and fungi Ascomycota and Basidiomycota , as stated above.

In previous work we hypothesized that a great event of genome deletion on which many of the intermediate enzymes for biosynthetic pathways for amino acids have vanished, ended up affecting the usage of EAAs in chordate proteomes [ 18 , 19 ].

In , Payne and Loomis [ 10 ] using pFam protein signatures reported that protists and animals share essentiality for the nine amino acids. Here we provide a broader analysis covering all genomes available today and trying to map how and when the Great Genomic Deletion has happened.

Evidence was found suggesting that this loss of capability to synthesize EAAs is conspicuous at the base of metazoan evolution, simultaneously affecting the complete set of EAAs. The phenomenon is characterized as an initial phenotypic deficiency, observed in Choanozoa, followed by multiple secondary gene losses.

Accordingly, some enzymes found in Chordata such as K14, M4 and M9 are missing in Arthropoda. Remarkably, some components such as VIL1 and M7 are maintained in most metazoan clades, despite of pathway loss. Actually, a Great Deletion causing concurrent phenotypic loss of amino acid biosynthesis capability affects both metazoan and non-metazoan eukaryotes.

Several clades containing complete genomes black filled symbols such as Rhodophyta, Euglenozoa and Apicomplexa, show similar EAAs pattern.

Moreover, some evidence is provided suggesting the absence of complete pathways in the non-Dikarya Fungi Microsporidia and Neocallimastigomycota. This gives support to separate events of Great Genomic Deletion for the origin of EAAs auxotrophy in at least three other branches.

Similarly to Choanozoa, clades such as Heterokontophyta and Rhizaria present various enzymes and some complete pathways. Evidences of complete pathways for all EAAs but histidine H were obtained in Heterokontophyta. Valine V , isoleucine I , lysine K and threonine T are potentially synthesized in Rhizaria as well as methionine M in Euglenozoa and Amoebozoa.

However it is possible that other EAAs may also be synthesized in some of these clades. The anabolic capabilities suggested by the current data might be underestimated because we have only draft genomes available for most of these organisms. The Choanozoa clade contains only draft genomes.

Though we observed more enzymes than in metazoan clades, a final picture of Choanozoan phenylalanine biosynthesis, for example, might require completion of genome sequencing.

Further gene loss occurs during metazoan evolution; however, for Placozoa, Porifera and Cnidaria, the Great Genomic Deletion seems to be well established. Since the first available sponge genome is still an ongoing project and its proteins are not yet deposited in UniProt, we manually inspected the deduced proteome using regular BLAST alignments see Methods and evidenced auxotrophy for all nine EAAs.

The same simple approach was applied to all phyla Figure 1 , triangles. Other clades that do not present any enzymes were omitted from Figure 1 , such as Apusozoa and Jakobida. Inspection of Figure 1 depicts a remarkable difference on lysine K biosynthesis pathways present in fungi and plants.

Since the occurrence of an α-aminoadipate AAA pathway K 1 in Fungi [ 20 ] as opposite to a diaminopimelate DAP pathway K 2 known to be present in plants, algae and bacteria [ 21 , 22 ] has already been reported, we set up to depict the complete scenario for K biosynthesis including prokaryotes Figure 2.

A third pathway K 3 preferentially used by Archaea but also reported to exist in bacterial groups [ 23 ] was also considered, therefore sequences from the Pyrococcus horikoshii archaea were also used as seed for homologue sequence clustering.

Data supports the view that the K 2 pathway, found to be complete in plants, is often present in prokaryotic clades of bacteria and archaea, in agreement with previous findings [ 21 , 22 ].

Curiously, nine bacterial clades Acidobacteria, Chlorobi, Deferribacteres, Deinococcus-Thermus, Fusobacteria, Chlamydiae, Synergistetes, Tenericutes and Thermotogae -- all of which contain complete genomes -- do not present K12 enzyme, but there are three other alternative subsets of enzymes present in prokaryotes that could circumvent this step in lysine biosynthesis.

Chlamydiae may represent an evidence of amino acid essentiality extended to prokaryotes, since diaminopimelate decarboxylase K14 is absent and there are no known alternatives to this reaction.

The set of enzymes responsible for the K 3 pathway, was found to occur in prokaryotes, and it is complete in the archaeal clades Crenarchaeota and Euryarcheota, as well as in the bacterial clades Chloroflexi and Proteobacteria, and probably in Actinobacteria and Bacteroidetes.

Remarkably, the first four enzymes that constitute this pathway are coincident with the K 1 pathway indicated by gray shading. The complete K 1 pathway occurs in Proteobacteria and possibly in Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes, as evidenced by regular BLAST and fungi.

The eukaryotic clades Rhizaria and Heterokontophyta, which present the K 2 pathway, appear to group with plants. Lysine anabolic pathways. K 1 represents Fungi α-aminoadipate AAA pathway; K 2 bacteria, plants, and algae diaminopimelate DAP pathway; K 3 archaea α-aminoadipate AAA variant pathway. Taxonomic tree displayed at phyla level.

Colors are as for Figure 1. Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ascomycota , Arabidopsis thaliana Streptophyta and Pyrococcus horikoshii Euryarchaeota were used as seeds. Consumption of amino acids is an important route for nitrogen assimilation in other biological compounds for heterotrophic organisms, such as those comprised by some of the clades shown in Figure 1 e.

Assimilation of free ammonium in eukaryotes is done by a cytoplasmatic reaction catalyzed by glutamate dehydrogenase EC Two isoforms are present in fungi and one in plants, the latter having the additional option to not only assimilate nitrogen, but also to fixate it, often with the association of nitrogen-fixating bacteria.

Thus, to investigate if the Great Genomic Deletion of biosynthetic enzymes for EAAs co-occurred with the heterotrophy for nitrogen, we generated clusters of the assimilative isoforms EC In yeast, the cytoplasmic assimilative isoforms are named GDH1 and GDH3 , and the catabolic mitochondrial is known as GDH2.

Arabidopsis thaliana proteins were also used as seed together with the Saccharomyces cerevisiae sequences: one known as putative GDH which grouped with the fungi assimilative ones, and three catabolic GDHs , that grouped with the human mitochondrial GLUD1 , though not with the yeast catabolic GHD2.

Results are shown in Figure 3A. The left column shows a cluster that groups assimilative isoforms with the two from yeast and the putative GDH from A. The catabolic mitochondrial isoforms from yeast central column and plant right column formed two independent clusters. In metazoan organisms, an assimilative enzyme was found in the basal group Cnidaria, all others being dependent on amino acid consumption to build nitrogenated compounds such as DNA, Porifera included.

Assimilative isoforms were also lacking in Choanozoa although complete genomes are unavailable. The same was observed for Placozoa. Comparing these results with those shown in Figure 1 , it is remarkable that Choanozoa, while still registering many amino acid biosynthetic enzymes 37 out of 61, redundancy eliminated shows a simultaneous deletion in both EAAs biosynthesis and nitrogen assimilation.

It is also apparent that the Great Genomic Deletion attains its almost final broad distribution in Cnidaria, which may be the last metazoan clade still capable to assimilate nitrogen from free ammonium.

Therefore a few biosynthetic enzymes remain, in this clade and other Metazoa, probably by connective functions in metabolism e. EC: 1. We have also observed that mammalian GDH GLUD1 presents a specialized allosteric control [ 24 ] which might have turned the enzyme toward glutamate catabolism rather than anabolism.

Such control was first observed in Ciliophora [ 25 ] and it is thought to have been transferred by lateral gene transfer to the metazoan ancestor [ 26 ]. To confirm the grouping in three clusters of enzymes with so similar activities, Figure 3B shows a phylogenetic tree built with eukaryotic glutamate dehydrogenase sequences, which clustered the isoforms in total accordance with data shown in Figure 3A.

Glutamate dehydrogenases. A: Left column: assimilative GDH1 and GDH3 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and putative GDH from Arabdopsis thaliana ; Central column: catabolic GDH2 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Right column: catabolic GDH1 , GDH2 and GDH3 from Arabdopsis thaliana.

B: Phylogenetic tree with eukaryotic sequences from glutamate dehydrogenase isoforms. Green branches: EC1. The non-Metazoa eukaryotes with complete genomes, such as Alveolata, Apicomplexa and Euglenozoa, lack EAA biosynthetic enzymes Figure 1 but keep the capability of nitrogen assimilation Figure 3.

Fornicata and Parabasalia, although represented only by draft genomes, have shown to contain the nitrogen assimilation enzyme even if they appear to be auxotrophic for all EAAs.

Lacking detection of any isoform of glutamate dehydrogenase and with available draft genomes is Rhizaria no complete genomes available , which still presents some EAA biosynthetic capability.

It is possible that the dependency of organic nitrogen has been attained earlier in Rhizaria, although complete sequencing is required for a sound conclusion. In general, data support a tendency for nitrogen heterotrophy succeeding the amino acid essentiality.

In Rhodophyta, a clade containing complete genomes sequenced, surprisingly no catabolic homologues were found; however a sequence that clusters with the assimilative isoforms has been found. We also investigated nitrogen assimilation in prokaryotes.

Homologues of assimilative enzymes are present and detected by our clustering procedure, but besides finding homologues of the catabolic seeds in bacterial clades, assimilative enzymes were not found in Aquificae, Chlamydiae and Synergistetes, all of them containing complete genomes available. This absence is consistent with the lysine auxotrophy suggested in Chlamydiae Figure 2 and support the idea that EAA auxotrophy is associated with the lack of nitrogen assimilation even in the prokaryotic clades.

It is hard to infer differential enzymatic activity in prokaryotes, since the annotated sequences available often report mixed use of coenzyme, either NADPH or NAD, although the homologous tools had grouped them distinctively.

If the homology is related to function, it may indicate that these organisms also demand the consumption of NEAA to constitute a source of organic nitrogen.

The presented scenario suggests that the loss of nitrogen assimilation forcing consumption of NEAA shortly succeeds the Great Genomic Deletion of EAA biosynthetic enzymes in metazoans. If this hypothesis is true, the Cnidaria would be an exception.

The remaining EAA biosynthetic enzymes in organisms that do not have the complete amino acid pathway Figure 1 are more susceptible to evolutionary modifications. It is also possible that paralogue subfunctionalization occurred in the common ancestor of animals, fungi and plants, and thus the divergent copy has remained in detriment of the original gene.

Considering both hypothesis we set up to analyze enzymes from EAA and functional NEAA pathways present in metazoans. Phylogenetic trees for acetolactate synthase VIL1 code in Figure 1 and for a group of alanine-glyoxylate, serine-glyoxylate and serine-pyruvate transaminases G1 code in Figure 1 are represented in Figure 4.

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