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<compound>
  <version>2.0</version>
  <creation_date>2012-05-31 14:29:36 -0600</creation_date>
  <update_date>2015-06-03 17:19:23 -0600</update_date>
  <accession>ECMDB20140</accession>
  <m2m_id>M2MDB000988</m2m_id>
  <name>D-Galactonate</name>
  <description>D-galactonate is a member of the chemical class known as Sugar Acids and Derivatives. These are compounds containing a saccharide unit which bears a carboxylic acid group.   The gluconic acid is produced by direct extracellular oxidation of glucose by a glucose dehydrogenase equipped with pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) as a cofactor. (PMID 14756528) Glucuronate is converted to l-gulonate by aldehyde reductase, an enzyme of the aldo-keto reductase superfamily.  l-Gulonate is converted to l-gulonolactone by a lactonase identified as SMP30 or regucalcin, whose absence in mice leads to vitamin C deficiency. (PMID 17222174)</description>
  <synonyms>
    <synonym>(2R,3S,4R,5R)-2,3,4,5,6-pentahydroxyhexanoate</synonym>
    <synonym>(2R,3S,4R,5R)-2,3,4,5,6-pentahydroxyhexanoic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>2,3,4,5,6-Pentahydroxyhexanoate</synonym>
    <synonym>2,3,4,5,6-Pentahydroxyhexanoic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>Altronate</synonym>
    <synonym>Altronic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>D-Altronate</synonym>
    <synonym>D-Altronic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>D-Galactonate</synonym>
    <synonym>D-Galactonic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>D-Gluco-hexonate</synonym>
    <synonym>D-Gluco-hexonic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>D-Gluconate</synonym>
    <synonym>D-Gluconic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>D-Mannonate</synonym>
    <synonym>D-Mannonic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>Galactonate</synonym>
    <synonym>Galactonic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>Gluconate</synonym>
    <synonym>Gluconate, technical</synonym>
    <synonym>Gluconic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>Gluconic acid, technical</synonym>
    <synonym>Gulonate</synonym>
    <synonym>Gulonic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>Hexonate</synonym>
    <synonym>Hexonic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>L-Galactonate</synonym>
    <synonym>L-Galactonic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>L-Gulonate</synonym>
    <synonym>L-Gulonic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>L-Idonate</synonym>
    <synonym>L-Idonic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>Mannonate</synonym>
    <synonym>Mannonic acid</synonym>
  </synonyms>
  <chemical_formula>C6H12O7</chemical_formula>
  <average_molecular_weight>196.1553</average_molecular_weight>
  <monisotopic_moleculate_weight>196.058302738</monisotopic_moleculate_weight>
  <iupac_name>2,3,4,5,6-pentahydroxyhexanoic acid</iupac_name>
  <traditional_iupac>magnesium gluconate anhydrous</traditional_iupac>
  <cas_registry_number>133-42-6</cas_registry_number>
  <smiles>OCC(O)C(O)C(O)C(O)C(O)=O</smiles>
  <inchi>InChI=1S/C6H12O7/c7-1-2(8)3(9)4(10)5(11)6(12)13/h2-5,7-11H,1H2,(H,12,13)</inchi>
  <inchikey>RGHNJXZEOKUKBD-UHFFFAOYSA-N</inchikey>
  <state></state>
  <cellular_locations>
    <cellular_location>Cytosol</cellular_location>
    <cellular_location>Extra-organism</cellular_location>
    <cellular_location>Periplasm</cellular_location>
  </cellular_locations>
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    <property>
      <kind>logp</kind>
      <value>-2.57</value>
      <source>ALOGPS</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>logs</kind>
      <value>-0.09</value>
      <source>ALOGPS</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>solubility</kind>
      <value>1.59e+02 g/l</value>
      <source>ALOGPS</source>
    </property>
  </predicted_properties>
  <experimental_properties>
  </experimental_properties>
  <property>
    <kind>logp</kind>
    <value>-3.4</value>
    <source>ChemAxon</source>
  </property>
  <property>
    <kind>pka_strongest_acidic</kind>
    <value>3.39</value>
    <source>ChemAxon</source>
  </property>
  <property>
    <kind>pka_strongest_basic</kind>
    <value>-3</value>
    <source>ChemAxon</source>
  </property>
  <property>
    <kind>iupac</kind>
    <value>2,3,4,5,6-pentahydroxyhexanoic acid</value>
    <source>ChemAxon</source>
  </property>
  <property>
    <kind>average_mass</kind>
    <value>196.1553</value>
    <source>ChemAxon</source>
  </property>
  <property>
    <kind>mono_mass</kind>
    <value>196.058302738</value>
    <source>ChemAxon</source>
  </property>
  <property>
    <kind>smiles</kind>
    <value>OCC(O)C(O)C(O)C(O)C(O)=O</value>
    <source>ChemAxon</source>
  </property>
  <property>
    <kind>formula</kind>
    <value>C6H12O7</value>
    <source>ChemAxon</source>
  </property>
  <property>
    <kind>inchi</kind>
    <value>InChI=1S/C6H12O7/c7-1-2(8)3(9)4(10)5(11)6(12)13/h2-5,7-11H,1H2,(H,12,13)</value>
    <source>ChemAxon</source>
  </property>
  <property>
    <kind>inchikey</kind>
    <value>RGHNJXZEOKUKBD-UHFFFAOYSA-N</value>
    <source>ChemAxon</source>
  </property>
  <property>
    <kind>polar_surface_area</kind>
    <value>138.45</value>
    <source>ChemAxon</source>
  </property>
  <property>
    <kind>refractivity</kind>
    <value>38.27</value>
    <source>ChemAxon</source>
  </property>
  <property>
    <kind>polarizability</kind>
    <value>16.83</value>
    <source>ChemAxon</source>
  </property>
  <property>
    <kind>rotatable_bond_count</kind>
    <value>5</value>
    <source>ChemAxon</source>
  </property>
  <property>
    <kind>acceptor_count</kind>
    <value>7</value>
    <source>ChemAxon</source>
  </property>
  <property>
    <kind>donor_count</kind>
    <value>6</value>
    <source>ChemAxon</source>
  </property>
  <property>
    <kind>physiological_charge</kind>
    <value>-1</value>
    <source>ChemAxon</source>
  </property>
  <property>
    <kind>formal_charge</kind>
    <value>0</value>
    <source>ChemAxon</source>
  </property>
  <pathways>
    <pathway>
      <name>Galactose metabolism</name>
      <description>Galactose can be synthesized through two pathways: melibiose degradation involving an alpha galactosidase and lactose degradation involving a beta galactosidase. Melibiose is first transported inside the cell through the melibiose:Li+/Na+/H+ symporter. Once inside the cell, melibiose is degraded through alpha galactosidase  into an alpha-D-galactose and a beta-D-glucose. The beta-D-glucose is phosphorylated by a glucokinase to produce a beta-D-glucose-6-phosphate which can spontaneously be turned into a alpha D glucose 6 phosphate. This alpha D-glucose-6-phosphate is metabolized into a glucose -1-phosphate through a phosphoglucomutase-1. The glucose -1-phosphate is transformed into a uridine diphosphate glucose through UTP--glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase. The product, uridine diphosphate glucose, can undergo a reversible reaction in which it can be turned into uridine diphosphategalactose through an UDP-glucose 4-epimerase.
Galactose can also be produced by lactose degradation involving a lactose permease to uptake lactose from the environment and a beta-galactosidase to turn lactose into Beta-D-galactose. 
Beta-D-galactose can also be uptaken from the environment through a galactose proton symporter.
Galactose is degraded through the following process:
Beta-D-galactose is introduced into the cytoplasm through a galactose proton symporter, or it can be synthesized from an alpha lactose that is introduced into the cytoplasm through a lactose permease. Alpha lactose interacts with water through a beta-galactosidase resulting in a beta-D-glucose and beta-D-galactose. Beta-D-galactose is isomerized into D-galactose. D-Galactose undergoes phosphorylation through a galactokinase, hence producing galactose 1 phosphate. On the other side of the pathway, a gluose-1-phosphate (product of the interaction of alpha-D-glucose 6-phosphate with a phosphoglucomutase resulting in a alpha-D-glucose-1-phosphate, an isomer of Glucose 1-phosphate, or an isomer of Beta-D-glucose 1-phosphate) interacts with UTP and a hydrogen ion in order to produce a uridine diphosphate glucose. This is followed by the interaction of galactose-1-phosphate with an established amount of uridine diphosphate glucose through a galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase, which in turn output a glucose-1-phosphate and a uridine diphosphate galactose. The glucose -1-phosphate is transformed into a uridine diphosphate glucose through UTP--glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase. The product, uridine diphosphate glucose, can undergo a reversible reaction in which it can be turned into uridine diphosphategalactose through an  UDP-glucose 4-epimerase, and so the cycle can keep going as long as more lactose or galactose is imported into the cell
</description>
      <pathwhiz_id>PW000821</pathwhiz_id>
      <kegg_map_id>ec00052</kegg_map_id>
      <subject>Metabolic</subject>
    </pathway>
    <pathway>
      <name>D-galactonate degradation</name>
      <ecocyc_pathway_id>GALACTCAT-PWY</ecocyc_pathway_id>
    </pathway>
  </pathways>
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  <hmdb_id>HMDB00565</hmdb_id>
  <pubchem_compound_id>604</pubchem_compound_id>
  <chemspider_id>584</chemspider_id>
  <kegg_id>C15930</kegg_id>
  <chebi_id>12931</chebi_id>
  <biocyc_id>D-GALACTONATE</biocyc_id>
  <het_id/>
  <wikipidia/>
  <foodb_id/>
  <general_references>
    <reference>
      <reference_text>Keseler, I. M., Collado-Vides, J., Santos-Zavaleta, A., Peralta-Gil, M., Gama-Castro, S., Muniz-Rascado, L., Bonavides-Martinez, C., Paley, S., Krummenacker, M., Altman, T., Kaipa, P., Spaulding, A., Pacheco, J., Latendresse, M., Fulcher, C., Sarker, M., Shearer, A. G., Mackie, A., Paulsen, I., Gunsalus, R. P., Karp, P. D. (2011). "EcoCyc: a comprehensive database of Escherichia coli biology." Nucleic Acids Res 39:D583-D590.</reference_text>
      <pubmed_id>21097882</pubmed_id>
    </reference>
    <reference>
      <reference_text>Kanehisa, M., Goto, S., Sato, Y., Furumichi, M., Tanabe, M. (2012). "KEGG for integration and interpretation of large-scale molecular data sets." Nucleic Acids Res 40:D109-D114.</reference_text>
      <pubmed_id>22080510</pubmed_id>
    </reference>
    <reference>
      <reference_text>van der Werf, M. J., Overkamp, K. M., Muilwijk, B., Coulier, L., Hankemeier, T. (2007). "Microbial metabolomics: toward a platform with full metabolome coverage." Anal Biochem 370:17-25.</reference_text>
      <pubmed_id>17765195</pubmed_id>
    </reference>
    <reference>
      <reference_text>Winder, C. L., Dunn, W. B., Schuler, S., Broadhurst, D., Jarvis, R., Stephens, G. M., Goodacre, R. (2008). "Global metabolic profiling of Escherichia coli cultures: an evaluation of methods for quenching and extraction of intracellular metabolites." Anal Chem 80:2939-2948.</reference_text>
      <pubmed_id>18331064</pubmed_id>
    </reference>
    <reference>
      <reference_text>Linster, C. L., Van Schaftingen, E. (2007). "Vitamin C. Biosynthesis, recycling and degradation in mammals." FEBS J 274:1-22.</reference_text>
      <pubmed_id>17222174</pubmed_id>
    </reference>
    <reference>
      <reference_text>Kim, C. H., Han, S. H., Kim, K. Y., Cho, B. H., Kim, Y. H., Koo, B. S., Kim, Y. C. (2003). "Cloning and expression of pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) genes from a phosphate-solubilizing bacterium Enterobacter intermedium." Curr Microbiol 47:457-461.</reference_text>
      <pubmed_id>14756528</pubmed_id>
    </reference>
  </general_references>
  <synthesis_reference></synthesis_reference>
  <msds_url/>
  <enzymes>
    <enzyme>
      <name>Glyoxylate/hydroxypyruvate reductase B</name>
      <uniprot_id>P37666</uniprot_id>
      <uniprot_name>GHRB_ECOLI</uniprot_name>
      <gene_name>ghrB</gene_name>
      <protein_url>http://ecmdb.ca/proteins/P37666.xml</protein_url>
    </enzyme>
    <enzyme>
      <name>L-idonate 5-dehydrogenase</name>
      <uniprot_id>P39346</uniprot_id>
      <uniprot_name>IDND_ECOLI</uniprot_name>
      <gene_name>idnD</gene_name>
      <protein_url>http://ecmdb.ca/proteins/P39346.xml</protein_url>
    </enzyme>
    <enzyme>
      <name>D-galactonate dehydratase</name>
      <uniprot_id>Q6BF17</uniprot_id>
      <uniprot_name>DGOD_ECOLI</uniprot_name>
      <gene_name>dgoD</gene_name>
      <protein_url>http://ecmdb.ca/proteins/Q6BF17.xml</protein_url>
    </enzyme>
    <enzyme>
      <name>Putative L-galactonate oxidoreductase</name>
      <uniprot_id>P39400</uniprot_id>
      <uniprot_name>YJJN_ECOLI</uniprot_name>
      <gene_name>yjjN</gene_name>
      <protein_url>http://ecmdb.ca/proteins/P39400.xml</protein_url>
    </enzyme>
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    <enzyme>
      <name>D-galactonate transporter</name>
      <uniprot_id>P0AA76</uniprot_id>
      <uniprot_name>DGOT_ECOLI</uniprot_name>
      <gene_name>dgoT</gene_name>
      <protein_url>http://ecmdb.ca/proteins/P0AA76.xml</protein_url>
    </enzyme>
    <enzyme>
      <name>Gnt-II system L-idonate transporter</name>
      <uniprot_id>P39344</uniprot_id>
      <uniprot_name>IDNT_ECOLI</uniprot_name>
      <gene_name>idnT</gene_name>
      <protein_url>http://ecmdb.ca/proteins/P39344.xml</protein_url>
    </enzyme>
    <enzyme>
      <name>L-galactonate transporter</name>
      <uniprot_id>P39398</uniprot_id>
      <uniprot_name>YJJL_ECOLI</uniprot_name>
      <gene_name>yjjL</gene_name>
      <protein_url>http://ecmdb.ca/proteins/P39398.xml</protein_url>
    </enzyme>
    <enzyme>
      <name>Outer membrane protein N</name>
      <uniprot_id>P77747</uniprot_id>
      <uniprot_name>OMPN_ECOLI</uniprot_name>
      <gene_name>ompN</gene_name>
      <protein_url>http://ecmdb.ca/proteins/P77747.xml</protein_url>
    </enzyme>
    <enzyme>
      <name>Outer membrane pore protein E</name>
      <uniprot_id>P02932</uniprot_id>
      <uniprot_name>PHOE_ECOLI</uniprot_name>
      <gene_name>phoE</gene_name>
      <protein_url>http://ecmdb.ca/proteins/P02932.xml</protein_url>
    </enzyme>
    <enzyme>
      <name>Outer membrane protein F</name>
      <uniprot_id>P02931</uniprot_id>
      <uniprot_name>OMPF_ECOLI</uniprot_name>
      <gene_name>ompF</gene_name>
      <protein_url>http://ecmdb.ca/proteins/P02931.xml</protein_url>
    </enzyme>
    <enzyme>
      <name>Outer membrane protein C</name>
      <uniprot_id>P06996</uniprot_id>
      <uniprot_name>OMPC_ECOLI</uniprot_name>
      <gene_name>ompC</gene_name>
      <protein_url>http://ecmdb.ca/proteins/P06996.xml</protein_url>
    </enzyme>
  </transporters>
  <reactions>
    <reaction_text>2 -Dehydro-L-gulonate + Hydrogen ion + NADH &gt; D-Galactonate + NAD</reaction_text>
    <kegg_reaction_id/>
    <ecocyc_id/>
    <pw_reaction_id/>
    <reaction_text>2 -Dehydro-L-gulonate + Hydrogen ion + NADPH &gt; D-Galactonate + NADP</reaction_text>
    <kegg_reaction_id/>
    <ecocyc_id/>
    <pw_reaction_id/>
    <reaction_text>5-Keto-D-gluconate + Hydrogen ion + NADH &lt;&gt; D-Galactonate + NAD</reaction_text>
    <kegg_reaction_id/>
    <ecocyc_id/>
    <pw_reaction_id/>
    <reaction_text>5-Keto-D-gluconate + Hydrogen ion + NADPH &gt; D-Galactonate + NADP</reaction_text>
    <kegg_reaction_id/>
    <ecocyc_id/>
    <pw_reaction_id/>
    <reaction_text>D-Galactonate + NAD &gt; Hydrogen ion + NADH + 5-Keto-D-gluconate</reaction_text>
    <kegg_reaction_id/>
    <ecocyc_id/>
    <pw_reaction_id/>
    <reaction_text>D-Galactonate &gt; Water + 2-Dehydro-3-deoxy-D-galactonate</reaction_text>
    <kegg_reaction_id/>
    <ecocyc_id>GALACTONDEHYDRAT-RXN</ecocyc_id>
    <pw_reaction_id/>
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  </concentrations>
</compound>
