NAD salvage pathway II (WP2487)

Escherichia coli

This pathway is an NAD salvage pathway which proceeds via the intermediate nicotinamide riboside (N-ribosylnicotinamide, or NR). While the presence of this pathway has been suggested for several organisms including Escherichia coli [Kurnasov02], it is of particular importance to Haemophilus influenzae and other V-factor-dependent members of the Pasteurella family. These organisms lack the enzymes necessary for the de novo synthesis of NAD, as well as most of the enzymes for the more common NAD salvage pathway, and therefore require exogenous NAD supply in the form of one of the V-factor compounds, which include NADP, NAD, NMN, and NR. However, only the non-phosphorylated V factor, NR, can be transported across the inner membrane into the cytoplasm, where it can be converted to NAD and NADP [Kurnasov02]. Thus this pathway is critical for these organisms [MacInnes90]. Since NAD+, which is obtained from extracellular sources, is highly polar, it has to be hydrolyzed before it can be transported across the cytoplasmic membrane for final uptake. A key enzyme in this pathway is a periplasmic protein that hydrolyzes NAD+ to nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN), and hydrolyzes NMN to nicotinamide riboside (NR) [Kemmer01]. The nicotinamide riboside thus formed is transported across the inner membrane into the cytoplasm, where it is it is converted back to NMN, and eventually, to NAD+. The identity of the NR transporter has not been confirmed experimentally, but it is suggested that it is encoded by the pnuC gene, although earlier work with the PnuC protein of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium suggested that it encodes the transport of NMN [Liu82, Kemmer01]. NADP+ is recycled in the same manner, following dephosphorylation to NAD+. In H. influenzae, this dephosphorylation is performed by the outer membrane glycoprotein e (P4), encoded by the hel gene. While the pathway is predicted to be present in Enterobacteriaceae, it probably serves a minor role compared to de novo biosynthesis and the main NAD salvage cycle (NAD salvage pathway I). Some of the enzymatic activities associated with this pathway have been described in Enterobacteriaceae as early as 1951 [Rowen51], but it was only recently that the genes responsible for them were identified. Surprisingly, several activities were found to be functions of the multifunctional protein NadR, which was initially believed to have a role in regulation only [Raffaelli99, Kurnasov02].

Authors

Cizar and Alex Pico

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Organisms

Escherichia coli

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Pathway Ontology

pyridine nucleotide biosynthetic pathway purine salvage pathway nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide biosynthetic pathway

Participants

Label Type Compact URI Comment
Phosphate Metabolite hmdb:HMDB0001429
Water Metabolite hmdb:HMDB0002111
Adenosinetriphosphate Metabolite hmdb:HMDB0000538
NADP Metabolite hmdb:HMDB0000217
Nicotinamide ribotide Metabolite hmdb:HMDB0000229
NAD Metabolite hmdb:HMDB0000902
Hydrogen Ion Metabolite hmdb:HMDB0059597
Adenosinemonophosphate Metabolite hmdb:HMDB0000045
Nicotinamideriboside Metabolite hmdb:HMDB0000855
ADP Metabolite hmdb:HMDB0001341
Pyrophosphate Metabolite hmdb:HMDB0000250
nadR GeneProduct ensembl:EBESCG00000001171
nudC GeneProduct ensembl:EBESCG00000003522

References

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