Genome Property Definition Page

AccessionGenProp0267
Nameosmolyte biosynthesis
TypeCATEGORY
DescriptionCells can resist dessication, high salt, and other osmotic stresses by modulating levels of osmolytes, compatible solutes that can exists in high concentrations without damaging cells. Some osmolytes may have secondary functions for carbon and energy storage molecules or for further biosynthetic reactions. Widely distributed compatible solutes induced by osmotic stress include trehalose, glucosylglycerol, sucrose, mannitol, glycine betaine and other betaines, ectoine and hydroxyectoine, glutamate, N-acetylglutaminylglutamine amide, etc.
Parent PropertyGenProp0063: biosynthesis
Literature References
[ 1 ]Kempf B, Bremer E  Uptake and synthesis of compatible solutes as microbial stress responses to high-osmolality environments.  Arch Microbiol 1998 Oct;170(5):319-30.  PMID 9818351


Parent Properties
AccessionName
GenProp0063biosynthesis

Child Properties
AccessionName
GenProp0147glycine betaine biosynthesis from choline
GenProp0264glucosylglycerol biosynthesis
GenProp0265trehalose biosynthesis, OtsAB pathway
GenProp0266trehalose biosynthesis, TreYZ pathway
GenProp0268ectoine biosynthesis
GenProp0281mannosylglycerate biosynthesis
GenProp0878N(epsilon)-acetyl-beta-lysine biosynthesis
GenProp1070beta-glutamate biosynthesis

Sibling Properties
AccessionName
GenProp0077natural products biosynthesis
GenProp0126amino acid biosynthesis
GenProp0184cofactor biosynthesis
GenProp0185nucleotide biosynthesis
GenProp0186storage and structural polymer biosynthesis
GenProp0197protein biosynthesis
GenProp0219spermidine biosynthesis from arginine (via agmatine)
GenProp0641spermidine biosynthesis from putrescine and S-adenosylmethionine
GenProp0642putrescine biosynthesis from arginine utilizing agmatinase
GenProp0643putrescine biosynthesis from arginine via ornithine
GenProp0644putrescine biosynthesis from glutamate via ornithine
GenProp0645putrescine biosynthesis
GenProp0724phosphonoacetaldehyde biosynthesis from phosphoenolpyruvate
GenProp0738agmatine to putrescine via N-carbamoylputrescine
GenProp0795carbohydrate biosynthesis
GenProp0838lipid biosynthesis
GenProp0909capreomycidine biosynthesis
GenProp0942alkane biosynthesis, cyanobacterial
GenProp1053rSAM/selenodomain system
GenProp1056rhizo-twelve system
GenProp1057radical SAM/SPASM system GeoRSP