KpATCC43816 Protein target profile

UTP-glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase

Accession: VK055_0250

Gene: galU AIK78876.1 3D evidence: AlphaFold DB model + ColabFold model Metabolism 1 reaction UniProt A0A0H3GU98
Length 300
Pocket druggability (P2Rank · AlphaFold DB model) 0.771
Metabolic reactions 1
Chokepoint No
Direct ligand evidence 0 55 total records
Functional annotation 1 EC 4 GO
Target summary

Promising target candidate with multiple supporting evidence streams.

Automated synthesis of the evidence currently loaded. Review the underlying records before prioritizing this protein.

Terms and data sources used on this page

PDB: experimentally determined structures from the Protein Data Bank. These are the strongest structural evidence, but may cover only part of the protein.

AlphaFold DB model: a precomputed predicted structure downloaded from AlphaFold Database/UniProt, not an experiment performed here.

ColabFold model: a predicted structure generated for this workspace; interpret it with coverage and confidence.

pLDDT: confidence score for predicted structures. High values support local geometry; low values mean the region should not drive pocket interpretation.

FPocket / P2Rank: software tools that predict possible ligand-binding pockets on a 3D structure. They are useful screening signals, not experimental validation.

Druggability: a pocket-based estimate of whether a small molecule could bind productively. It does not mean a drug already exists.

PDB ligand: a compound observed in an experimental structure. Direct same-protein records are stronger than homolog-transferred records.

ChEMBL: a public database of measured compound bioactivity. Direct entries are stronger than entries transferred from similar proteins.

ZINC: a purchasable-compound database. Here it marks proposed candidates from chemical similarity, not measured binders.

LigQ / LigQ_2: an internal Target pipeline step that gathers PDB, ChEMBL, and ZINC ligand evidence for each protein.

Off-target: sequence similarity to proteins we prefer not to hit, such as human proteins or beneficial gut microbiome proteins.

DEG: Database of Essential Genes. A match suggests the protein resembles genes known to be essential in other organisms.

Roary / CoreCruncher: pan-genome tools used to decide whether a gene is core across analyzed strains or accessory/strain-specific.

EC / GO: functional annotations: EC describes enzyme reactions; GO describes biological process, molecular function, or cellular component.

KEGG pathway: a curated metabolic route label used here to group reactions imported from the metabolic model.

Chokepoint: a metabolic reaction that is the only producer or consumer of a metabolite in the imported model.

Prioritization evidence

Selectivity, essentiality, structural confidence, conservation, and predicted binding-site evidence.

Off-target risk

Human off-target
Hit
Human identity (%)
26.415 Lower values reduce human off-target concern.
Human E-value
2.91e-06
Gut microbiome similarity
3.6% of screened genomes Lower prevalence suggests narrower overlap with the screened gut microbiome.

Essentiality

Essential (DEG)
Y
DEG identity (%)
95.254 Higher values support similarity to known essential genes.
DEG E-value
0.0 Smaller values mean stronger essential-gene similarity.

Structure confidence

ColabFold pLDDT
93.87 0-100 confidence; >70 supports local structural interpretation.

Binding-site evidence

AlphaFold DB / UniProt model

P2Rank's binding-site probability is the primary druggability signal shown across the app; FPocket's druggability score is shown alongside it for comparison. Both estimate small-molecule pocket quality after applying the curated structure priority — neither is experimental binding evidence. The 3D viewer may show a different loaded structure, so visible pockets can differ.

Druggability (P2Rank) 0.771
Structure A0A0H3GU98
Pocket Pocket 1
Druggability (FPocket) 0.28
Structure A0A0H3GU98
Pocket Pocket 7
ColabFold model
P2Rank 0.84 · Pocket 1
FPocket 0.188 · Pocket 19
Core conservation Conserved core gene
Roary core
CoreCruncher core
Gut microbiome 171 / 4744 genomes with a hit
Prevalence 3.6%

Metabolic context

Reactions catalyzed, pathway membership, and centrality in the genome-scale metabolic network.

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Metabolic context: more central than 98.7% of genes in this genome.

Relative network centrality 98.7% more central than 98.7% of genes in this genome
Chokepoint Not a chokepoint
Catalyzed reaction

1 reaction mapped to this gene in the metabolic model. Open the full network to see each one, with substrates/products and the reaction-reaction map.

Imported from KpATCC43816.sbml · 2026-07-09

Sequence

Primary amino-acid sequence viewer.

MAALNSKVRKAVIPVAGLGTRMLPATKAIPKEMLPLVDKPLIQYVVNECIAAGITEIVLVTHSSKNSIENHFDTSFELEAMLEKRVKRQLLEEVQSICPPHVTIMQVRQGLAKGLGHAVLCAHPVVGDEPVAVILPDVILDEYESDLSRDNLAEMISRFDETGASQIMVEPVEDVTAYGVVDCKGESLKPGESVPMVGVVEKPKADVAPSNLAVVGRYVLSADIWPLLAKTPPGAGDEIQLTDAIDMLIEKETVEAYHMKGKSHDCGNKLGYMQAFVEYGIRHKTLGDDFKAWLETAVAK

Functional annotations

Enzyme classification and Gene Ontology terms linked to this protein.

1 EC 4 GO

Subcellular localization

Localization
Cytoplasmic

Enzyme Commission (EC)

1

Gene Ontology (GO)

4
  • GO:0003983 Catalysis of the reaction: alpha-D-glucose 1-phosphate + UTP = diphosphate + UDP-D-glucose.
  • GO:0009058 A cellular process consisting of the biochemical pathways by which a living organism synthesizes chemical substances. This typically represents the energy-requiring part of metabolism in which simpler substances are transformed into more complex ones.
  • GO:0006011 The chemical reactions and pathways involving UDP-alpha-D-glucose, a substance composed of alpha-D-glucose in glycosidic linkage with uridine diphosphate.
  • GO:0005829 The part of the cytoplasm that does not contain organelles but which does contain other particulate matter, such as protein complexes.

Sequence domains and features

Domain and signature matches imported from InterPro and related databases.

13 records
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Start End DB Term Name
8 275 NCBIfam TIGR01099 UTP--glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase GalU
8 275 InterPro IPR005771 UTP--glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase, bacterial/archaeal-type
8 293 SUPERFAMILY SSF53448 Nucleotide-diphospho-sugar transferases
8 293 InterPro IPR029044 Nucleotide-diphospho-sugar transferases
10 277 Pfam PF00483 Nucleotidyl transferase
10 277 InterPro IPR005835 Nucleotidyl transferase domain
1 300 Gene3D G3DSA:3.90.550.10 Spore Coat Polysaccharide Biosynthesis Protein SpsA; Chain A
1 300 InterPro IPR029044 Nucleotide-diphospho-sugar transferases
6 299 PANTHER PTHR43197 UTP--GLUCOSE-1-PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE
6 299 InterPro IPR005771 UTP--glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase, bacterial/archaeal-type
9 282 CDD cd02541 UGPase_prokaryotic
9 282 InterPro IPR005771 UTP--glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase, bacterial/archaeal-type
1 300 FunFam G3DSA:3.90.550.10:FF:000008 UTP--glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase

3D structure

Selected loaded structure. Experimental PDB entries may cover only a portion of the sequence; AlphaFold DB and ColabFold models typically cover the full protein but remain computational predictions.

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Uniform protein color marks the displayed model as a single molecular object.
Experimental PDB structures may be colored by chain to distinguish subunits or copies present in the file.
Pocket colors and alpha spheres are evidence overlays for predicted binding cavities; they are not alternative protein chains.
'Alpha spheres' is FPocket's own cavity-shape geometry, imported when available and aligned with the loaded structure.
'Pocket atoms'/'Predicted site atoms' show the pocket's residue atoms instead: P2Rank reports residues rather than alpha spheres, and FPocket falls back to this when alpha-sphere geometry is unavailable or doesn't align.
'No pocket geometry' means neither alpha spheres nor residue-position data could be found for that pocket; the layer just highlights the same residues as 'Nearby residues'.
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Binding pockets · P2Rank

Druggability (P2Rank): high ≥ 0.5 · medium 0.2–0.49 · low < 0.2

Pocket 1 P2Rank #1
0.771
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Pocket 2 P2Rank #2
0.033
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Pocket 3 P2Rank #3
0.014
Likely same site as FPocket 19 2.4 Å 5 shared residues 100% of smaller site
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Binding pockets · FPocket

Druggability (FPocket): high ≥ 0.7 · medium 0.4–0.69 · low < 0.4

Pocket 1 FPocket #7
0.28
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Pocket 2 FPocket #19
0.248
Likely same site as P2Rank 3 2.4 Å 5 shared residues 100% of smaller site
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All structural evidence 0 experimental · 2 predicted

Structural evidence

0 + 2

Experimental PDB entries plus predicted AlphaFold DB or ColabFold models. Click Switch to display a different loaded structure in the viewer.

Entry Method Resolution Chain Coverage Links Status
AlphaFold DB AF_A0A0H3GU98
AlphaFold DB full sequence Viewing
ColabFold VK055_0250
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Ligand evidence

Ligands grouped by evidence source. PDB ligands keep the source crystal visible, and loaded crystals can be opened directly in the structure viewer.

55 records
Chemistry signal

Structural ligand evidence is available for this target.

Direct evidence 0 same-protein records
Transferred evidence 5 records from similar proteins
Structural ligands 5 0 loaded crystals
Measured bioactivity 0 direct and transferred ChEMBL records
Proposed compounds 50 similarity-based ZINC candidates
Best available ligand signal
3PO PDB via homolog 258.0 Da · LogP -0.69 · TPSA 170.8 Open detail RCSB PDB
PPV PDB via homolog Detail RCSB PDB
TRH PDB via homolog Detail RCSB PDB
UPG PDB via homolog Detail RCSB PDB
URI PDB via homolog Detail RCSB PDB

Structural evidence inferred from similar proteins. The source crystal indicates where the ligand was observed; the UniProt column identifies the homologous protein carrying that ligand.

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Ligand Source crystal UniProt (homolog) MW · LogP · TPSA Lipinski PAINS SMILES
3PO RCSB PDB X2KZJ9 258.0 Da LogP -0.69 TPSA 170.8 ✓ Ro5 ✓ Clean OP(=O)(O)OP(=O)(O)OP(=O)(O)O
PPV RCSB PDB X2KZJ9 178.0 Da LogP -0.81 TPSA 124.3 ✓ Ro5 ✓ Clean OP(=O)(O)OP(=O)(O)O
TRH RCSB PDB B2JFC5 548.3 Da LogP -2.43 TPSA 256.5 3 viol. ✓ Clean C[C@H]1[C@@H]([C@H]([C@H]([C@H](O1)O[P@](=O)(O)…
UPG RCSB PDB A4JT02 566.3 Da LogP -4.79 TPSA 297.0 3 viol. ✓ Clean C1=CN(C(=O)NC1=O)[C@H]2[C@@H]([C@@H]([C@H](O2)C…
URI RCSB PDB X2KZJ9 244.2 Da LogP -2.85 TPSA 124.8 ✓ Ro5 ✓ Clean C1=CN(C(=O)NC1=O)[C@H]2[C@@H]([C@@H]([C@H](O2)C…

PDB and ChEMBL records on this protein are shown in full. ChEMBL records from similar proteins are capped at the top 100 per protein (by pchembl) and ZINC at the top 50 (Tanimoto ≥ 0.5). ADME columns are descriptor-based screening flags, not experimental toxicity results.

Cross-references

External database identifiers for this protein, its structures, ligands, and metabolic reactions.