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Galactose Metabolism Pathway

Gal4 is a yeast transcription factor. This positive regulator induces the Leloir pathway, a metabolic pathway for the conversion of β-d-galactose to the glucose-1-phosphate. The pathway is comprised of four enzymes: (1) Galactokinase (Gal1), (2) Galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase (Gal7) and (3) Galactose mutarotase and UDP-galactose-4-epimerase both contaied by a single polypeptide chain (Gal10). Two additional regulatory proteins, Gal80 and Gal3, interact with Gal4 to affect the expression of the pathway. Together this set of structural and regulatory genes has served as a model system for the study of transcription regulation in eukaryotes.

Regulation of the Pathway

The Gal4 Transcription factor

PDB ID 1d66

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1d66, resolution 2.70Å ()
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zinc finger

Mutation in Gal4

gal81c - constitutive [1]


PDB ID 1d66

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1d66, resolution 2.70Å ()
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References

Structure and Function of Enzymes of the Leloir Pathway for Galactose Metabolism, J. Biol. Chem 2003 [2]

Galactose metabolic pathway, KEGG database [3].

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