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The UniProt accession P32377 corresponds to Saccharomyces cerevisiae (S288c) ERG19, also called MVD1/Mvd1, annotated as diphosphomevalonate (mevalonate diphosphate) decarboxylase (EC 4.1.1.33) in the mevalonate/ergosterol pathway. Multiple independent sources explicitly identify ERG19 as the yeast gene encoding mevalonate diphosphate (pyrophosphate) decarboxylase, matching the UniProt description and enzyme classification. (benveniste2002sterolmetabolism pages 4-7, maury2005microbialisoprenoidproduction pages 9-12, jorda2020regulationofergosterol pages 3-4)
ERG19/Mvd1 encodes mevalonate diphosphate decarboxylase (also called diphosphomevalonate decarboxylase). This enzyme produces the universal C5 isoprenoid building block isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP) from mevalonate 5-diphosphate (mevalonate pyrophosphate; MVAPP). (benveniste2002sterolmetabolism pages 4-7, maury2005microbialisoprenoidproduction pages 9-12, maury2005microbialisoprenoidproduction pages 7-9)
The enzyme catalyzes an ATP-dependent decarboxylation that converts MVAPP → IPP, releasing CO2; this step is a key conversion that channels carbon into downstream isoprenoid and ergosterol biosynthesis. (benveniste2002sterolmetabolism pages 4-7, maury2005microbialisoprenoidproduction pages 9-12, sun2019mevalonatediphosphatedecarboxylase pages 1-2)
Mechanistic descriptions in the retrieved literature indicate that the reaction is ATP-dependent and Mg2+-requiring. A mechanistic model describes initial phosphorylation (transfer of ATP γ-phosphate to the C3-hydroxyl of MVAPP), followed by decarboxylation and elimination, proceeding via a transient 3-phospho-mevalonate-5-diphosphate intermediate; ERG19/Mvd1 is classified within the GHMP kinase superfamily context in this mechanistic framing. (garay2026themevalonatepathway pages 12-13, sun2019mevalonatediphosphatedecarboxylase pages 1-2)
In yeast, ERG19 functions in the early mevalonate pathway that supplies IPP, which is then converted through IDI1 and prenyltransferases (e.g., ERG20) to longer prenyl diphosphates feeding sterol synthesis (ergosterol) and also other essential isoprenoid-derived metabolites (e.g., ubiquinone, dolichol, heme, prenylated proteins). (maury2005microbialisoprenoidproduction pages 9-12, jorda2020regulationofergosterol pages 3-4, jorda2020regulationofergosterol media b5666840)
Figure-based pathway evidence. Jordá & Puig’s 2020 review depicts ERG19/Mvd1 (“mevalonate pyrophosphate decarboxylase”) in the ergosterol biosynthetic map and assigns pathway modules to distinct cellular locations (vacuole/mitochondria for earlier modules; ER for late sterol steps). (jorda2020regulationofergosterol media b5666840)
The retrieved corpus contains partly inconsistent localization statements:
Conclusion: a direct ERG19/Mvd1 localization experiment in S. cerevisiae (e.g., ERG19-GFP microscopy) was not found in the retrieved texts, so localization is best stated as primarily cytosolic by inference from pathway/module descriptions and localization database summaries, with awareness that some reviews present alternative compartment assignments. (johnston2020thewide‐rangingphenotypes pages 1-5, cao2020harnessingsuborganellemetabolism pages 1-2, jorda2020regulationofergosterol media b5666840)
A reviewed line of evidence indicates that yeast mevalonate diphosphate decarboxylase forms homodimers in vivo; dimerization defects can be caused by single amino-acid substitutions (as summarized), and cross-species dimer interactions are reported in complementation/two-hybrid contexts. (benveniste2002sterolmetabolism pages 4-7)
Within the retrieved evidence set, ERG19/Mvd1 is described as essential for viability (stated in yeast-related literature cited by a filamentous-fungus paper’s reference context). However, primary S. cerevisiae erg19 mutant phenotype experiments were not directly retrieved here, so the evidence is best treated as authoritative secondary reporting, not a direct phenotype dataset in this run. (hu2019effectsongene pages 12-13)
More broadly, disruption of ergosterol synthesis causes pleiotropic defects in growth and stress adaptation (and ergosterol inhibition can lead to mitochondrial DNA loss unless ergosterol is supplied), emphasizing that upstream supply of sterol precursors is physiologically critical. (jorda2020regulationofergosterol pages 1-3)
A major yeast ergosterol-regulation review states that sterol regulatory element-binding transcription factors Upc2 and Ecm22, the heme-binding protein Hap1, and repressors Rox1 and Mot3 coordinate ERG gene expression in S. cerevisiae under changing oxygen/iron/sterol conditions. This is pathway-level regulation context relevant to ERG19, though ERG19-specific promoter analyses were not extracted from the available text. (jorda2020regulationofergosterol pages 1-3)
A mechanistic review/preprint further states that fungal ERG19/MDD expression is regulated by Upc2p/Ecm22p and is upregulated under sterol-depleted conditions, again providing pathway-level regulation context rather than a gene-specific promoter dissection in the retrieved excerpts. (garay2026themevalonatepathway pages 12-13)
Authoritative reviews frame ergosterol biosynthesis as a high-energy, high-reducing-power pathway. Jordá & Puig report an estimated requirement of 24 ATP and 16 NADPH per ergosterol molecule (reviewed), underscoring why flux through early steps (including ERG19) is tightly regulated and why engineering often targets upstream mevalonate reactions. (jorda2020regulationofergosterol pages 3-4, jorda2020regulationofergosterol pages 4-6)
A 2024 Nature Communications study (Li et al.; accepted 6 Nov 2024; URL below) uses genome-scale modeling and experiments to replace the native mevalonate pathway with a two-step isopentenol utilization (IU) pathway relying on ATP as the only cofactor.
Key ERG19-relevant findings:
* Flux balance analysis predicts that knockout of ERG19 (along with other MVA genes) inactivates the MVA pathway and prevents growth without an alternative supply route. (li2024yeastmetabolismadaptation pages 1-2)
* Introducing the IU pathway and supplying isopentenol restored growth; at 0.0186 mmol/gDCW/h, growth matched wild-type level (quantitative modeling result). (li2024yeastmetabolismadaptation pages 1-2)
Publication details: Li et al., Nature Communications (2024), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54298-8 (li2024yeastmetabolismadaptation pages 1-2)
Within the retrieved 2023–2024 documents accessible here, ERG19 is not extensively re-characterized biochemically; rather, ERG19 appears in systems-level modeling, pathway replacement, and as a standard node in terpenoid precursor supply logic. (li2024yeastmetabolismadaptation pages 1-2)
A 2022 metabolic engineering study demonstrates a high-flux mevalonate/sterol precursor chassis where ERG19 is among multiple overexpressed genes (ERG10, ERG13, tHMG1, ERG12, ERG8, ERG19, IDI1, ERG20, ERG9). Quantitative outcomes reported include:
Publication details: Lu et al., Microbial Biotechnology (May 2022), https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.14072 (lu2022enhancingfluxesthrough pages 1-2, lu2022enhancingfluxesthrough pages 10-12)
A 2017 Microbial Cell Factories study used ERG19 cloned from S. cerevisiae as the mevalonate diphosphate decarboxylase component of a five-enzyme lower-mevalonate module to produce isoprene from mevalonate in vitro.
Quantitative outcomes:
* Optimized small-scale system produced 6323.5 µmol/L/h (430 mg/L/h) isoprene, using 5.0 µM MVD (ERG19 product) along with MVK, PMK, IDI, and isoprene synthase. (sun2019mevalonatediphosphatedecarboxylase pages 1-2)
* Scale-up (50 mL) produced 302 mg/L isoprene in 40 h, using 0.5 µM MVD. (sun2019mevalonatediphosphatedecarboxylase pages 1-2)
Publication details: Cheng et al., Microbial Cell Factories (Jan 2017), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12934-016-0622-4 (sun2019mevalonatediphosphatedecarboxylase pages 1-2)
A 2019 ACS Chemical Biology study on an alternative mevalonate pathway (altMVA) reports constructing a viable engineered S. cerevisiae platform in which the classical pathway is replaced; the excerpt shows ERG19 deletion/counterselection in strain construction (ERG19 appears explicitly in the strain engineering logic), supporting ERG19’s centrality as a control point in pathway replacement strategies. (sun2019mevalonatediphosphatedecarboxylase pages 1-2)
Key quantitative data points directly tied to ERG19-containing systems in the retrieved set:
The following evidence-map artifacts consolidate the main findings with publication dates and URLs.
| Topic | Key findings | Evidence type | Representative source (author year) | Publication date | URL | Citation ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | Target identity is verified: S. cerevisiae ERG19 (alias MVD1/Mvd1; YNR043W) encodes mevalonate/diphosphomevalonate pyrophosphate decarboxylase, EC 4.1.1.33, matching UniProt P32377; no conflicting yeast gene identity was found in retrieved texts. | Review | Benveniste 2002; Jordá & Puig 2020 | 2002-01; 2020-07-15 | https://doi.org/10.1199/tab.0004 ; https://doi.org/10.3390/genes11070795 | (benveniste2002sterolmetabolism pages 4-7, jorda2020regulationofergosterol pages 3-4, jorda2020regulationofergosterol pages 1-3) |
| Reaction | ERG19/Mvd1 catalyzes ATP-dependent conversion of mevalonate 5-diphosphate (mevalonate pyrophosphate; MVAPP) to isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP), with CO2 release. | Review | Benveniste 2002; Maury et al. 2005 | 2002-01; 2005-07 | https://doi.org/10.1199/tab.0004 ; https://doi.org/10.1007/b136410 | (benveniste2002sterolmetabolism pages 4-7, maury2005microbialisoprenoidproduction pages 9-12, sun2019mevalonatediphosphatedecarboxylase pages 1-2) |
| Cofactors/mechanism | Reaction requires ATP and Mg2+; mechanistic summary in retrieved texts describes phosphorylation of the C3-hydroxyl of MVAPP by ATP, followed by decarboxylation/elimination via a transient 3-phospho-mevalonate-5-diphosphate intermediate; enzyme belongs to the GHMP kinase superfamily. | Review | Garay et al. 2026 preprint; Sun et al. 2019 | 2026-05; 2019-05 | https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202605.0182.v1 ; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01074 | (garay2026themevalonatepathway pages 12-13, sun2019mevalonatediphosphatedecarboxylase pages 1-2) |
| Pathway role | Mvd1/Erg19 supplies IPP, the universal C5 isoprenoid building block, placing it in the early mevalonate/ergosterol pathway upstream of IDI1 and ERG20 and therefore upstream of sterol, ubiquinone, dolichol, heme, and prenylated-protein biosynthesis. | Review | Maury et al. 2005; Jordá & Puig 2020 | 2005-07; 2020-07-15 | https://doi.org/10.1007/b136410 ; https://doi.org/10.3390/genes11070795 | (maury2005microbialisoprenoidproduction pages 9-12, maury2005microbialisoprenoidproduction pages 7-9, jorda2020regulationofergosterol pages 3-4, jorda2020regulationofergosterol pages 1-3, jorda2020regulationofergosterol media b5666840) |
| Localization | Retrieved sources are partly inconsistent. One review/preprint describes MDD/Mvd1 as a cytosolic homodimer and a 2020 cell-factory review states the MVA-pathway proteins are mostly cytosolic. By contrast, Jordá & Puig’s pathway figure places the first/second pathway modules in vacuole/mitochondria or vacuole; direct ERG19-specific localization experiment in S. cerevisiae was not found in retrieved texts. | Review | Johnston et al. 2020; Cao et al. 2020; Jordá & Puig 2020 | 2020-01; 2020-09; 2020-07-15 | https://doi.org/10.1002/yea.3452 ; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.synbio.2020.06.005 ; https://doi.org/10.3390/genes11070795 | (johnston2020thewide‐rangingphenotypes pages 1-5, garay2026themevalonatepathway pages 12-13, cao2020harnessingsuborganellemetabolism pages 1-2, jorda2020regulationofergosterol media b5666840) |
| Essentiality/phenotypes | ERG19 is described as essential for viability in yeast-related literature cited in retrieved texts; pathway defects in ergosterol synthesis broadly impair proliferation/stress adaptation, and pharmacological or genetic inhibition of ergosterol synthesis can cause mitochondrial-DNA loss unless ergosterol is supplied. Specific S. cerevisiae erg19 mutant phenotype details were otherwise not found in retrieved texts. | Review | Hu et al. 2019; Jordá & Puig 2020 | 2019-09; 2020-07-15 | https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms7090342 ; https://doi.org/10.3390/genes11070795 | (hu2019effectsongene pages 12-13, jorda2020regulationofergosterol pages 1-3) |
| Regulation | Retrieved texts indicate fungal MDD/ERG19 expression is controlled at the pathway level by sterol-responsive transcription factors Upc2p and Ecm22p and is induced under sterol-depleted conditions; Jordá & Puig review identifies Upc2/Ecm22, Hap1, Rox1 and Mot3 as central coordinators of ERG gene expression in S. cerevisiae, but ERG19-specific promoter-level details were not found in retrieved texts. | Review | Garay et al. 2026 preprint; Jordá & Puig 2020 | 2026-05; 2020-07-15 | https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202605.0182.v1 ; https://doi.org/10.3390/genes11070795 | (garay2026themevalonatepathway pages 12-13, jorda2020regulationofergosterol pages 1-3) |
| Protein-protein interactions / oligomerization | MVDPD/Mvd1 forms homodimers in vivo; Arabidopsis MVDPD can heterodimerize with the yeast enzyme in complementation/two-hybrid evidence summarized in review literature. | Review summarizing primary evidence | Benveniste 2002 | 2002-01 | https://doi.org/10.1199/tab.0004 | (benveniste2002sterolmetabolism pages 4-7) |
| Metabolic engineering / applications | ERG19 is a standard engineering node in yeast mevalonate-pathway optimization. In strain SQ-3, overexpression of ERG10, ERG13, tHMG1, ERG12, ERG8, ERG19, IDI1, ERG20 and ERG9 supported high-flux terpene production; downstream tuning enabled 408.88 ± 0.09 mg/L squalene in shake flasks and 4.94 g/L in fed-batch, and a derived strain produced 11.86 ± 0.09 mg/L β-caryophyllene. In an alternative-pathway study, ERG19 deletion was used as part of replacing the classical MVA pathway in yeast; in 2024 FBA, ERG19 knockout was predicted to inactivate the MVA pathway. | Engineering | Lu et al. 2022; Thomas et al. 2019; Li et al. 2024 | 2022-05; 2019-07; 2024-11-06 accepted | https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.14072 ; https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.9b00322 ; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54298-8 | (lu2022enhancingfluxesthrough pages 1-2, lu2022enhancingfluxesthrough pages 10-12, li2024yeastmetabolismadaptation pages 1-2) |
Table: This table summarizes the key verified facts for Saccharomyces cerevisiae MVD1/ERG19 (UniProt P32377), including biochemical function, pathway role, localization evidence, regulation, and engineering relevance. It is designed as a compact evidence map with dates, URLs, and context citations for rapid use in functional annotation.
| Use case | What was done with ERG19 | Product/Outcome | Quantitative metrics | Host/Context | Publication date | URL | Citation ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metabolic engineering of native mevalonate pathway | ERG19 was one of the overexpressed pathway genes in strain SQ-3 together with ERG10, ERG13, tHMG1, ERG12, ERG8, IDI1, ERG20, and ERG9 | High-flux chassis for terpene/sterol production; downstream strains produced squalene and β-caryophyllene | Derived strain SQ3-5 produced 408.88 ± 0.09 mg/L squalene in shake flasks and 4.94 g/L squalene in fed-batch cane molasses medium; derived strain SQ3-4-CPS produced 11.86 ± 0.09 mg/L β-caryophyllene; HMGR optimization in the same study gave 431-fold and 9-fold squalene increases in haploid and industrial strains, respectively (lu2022enhancingfluxesthrough pages 1-2, lu2022enhancingfluxesthrough pages 10-12) | Saccharomyces cerevisiae industrial and laboratory engineering platform | 2022-05 | https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.14072 | (lu2022enhancingfluxesthrough pages 1-2, lu2022enhancingfluxesthrough pages 10-12) |
| Pathway replacement / modeling | ERG19 knockout was evaluated in silico as one of several deletions that inactivate the native MVA pathway; ERG19 was not the practical deletion used experimentally, but its loss was explicitly modeled | Demonstrated that ERG19 is indispensable for native MVA-pathway-supported growth; informed design of an isopentenol utilization (IU) pathway-dependent strain | Flux balance analysis predicted no growth without the MVA pathway; introduction of the IU pathway plus isopentenol restored growth, with wild-type-level growth at 0.0186 mmol/gDCW/h isopentenol flux; PRM10L156Q reduced prenol uptake by 30.88% while isoprenol uptake was unaffected (li2024yeastmetabolismadaptation pages 1-2) | Saccharomyces cerevisiae growth-coupled terpenoid platform using alternative precursor assimilation | 2024-11-06 accepted / 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54298-8 | (li2024yeastmetabolismadaptation pages 1-2) |
| In vitro biocatalysis / synthetic biochemistry | ERG19 from S. cerevisiae was cloned and used as the MVD enzyme in a five-enzyme lower mevalonate pathway module (with MVK, PMK, IDI, ISPS) | Cell-free conversion of mevalonate to isoprene | Optimized 2 mL system produced 6323.5 µmol/L/h (430 mg/L/h) isoprene using balanced enzyme levels including 5.0 µM MVD; 50 mL scale-up produced 302 mg/L isoprene in 40 h using 0.5 µM MVD (sun2019mevalonatediphosphatedecarboxylase pages 1-2) | In vitro enzyme system using yeast ERG19 as one component of the lower MVA pathway | 2017-01 | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12934-016-0622-4 | (sun2019mevalonatediphosphatedecarboxylase pages 1-2) |
| Synthetic pathway rewiring / altMVA platform | Native ERG19 was functionally bypassed in a yeast platform where the classical MVA pathway was replaced with an alternative mevalonate pathway; ERG19 deletion/background dependence was part of strain construction | Viable S. cerevisiae platform for enzyme engineering and terpene biosynthesis using an alternative route to IPP | Study reported creation of a viable engineered yeast platform replacing the classical pathway with altMVA, but no ERG19-specific production titer was provided in the retrieved excerpt (sun2019mevalonatediphosphatedecarboxylase pages 1-2) | Saccharomyces cerevisiae synthetic biology chassis for alternative mevalonate-pathway engineering | 2019-07 | https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.9b00322 | (sun2019mevalonatediphosphatedecarboxylase pages 1-2) |
| Expert pathway analysis / engineering target context | ERG19 was identified as the mevalonate diphosphate decarboxylase step that can affect sterol flux; overexpression was discussed as potentially reducing sterol content through diphosphate accumulation/feedback effects | Conceptual basis for choosing ERG19 as a control point in isoprenoid and sterol engineering | No standalone numeric ERG19 engineering metric reported in the retrieved excerpt; expert review highlighted ERG19 as a pathway node with possible flux-control consequences (maury2005microbialisoprenoidproduction pages 9-12, maury2005microbialisoprenoidproduction pages 13-14) | Review perspective on microbial isoprenoid production in yeast | 2005-07 | https://doi.org/10.1007/b136410 | (maury2005microbialisoprenoidproduction pages 9-12, maury2005microbialisoprenoidproduction pages 13-14) |
Table: This table summarizes how S. cerevisiae ERG19/MVD1 has been used or implicated in metabolic engineering, pathway replacement, and in vitro biocatalysis studies. It prioritizes 2022-2024 evidence where available and includes quantitative outcomes to support functional annotation and application-focused interpretation.
MVD1/ERG19 (UniProt P32377) encodes mevalonate 5-diphosphate decarboxylase (EC 4.1.1.33), catalyzing an ATP- and Mg2+-dependent decarboxylation converting mevalonate-5-diphosphate (MVAPP) to isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP), thereby supplying the universal C5 precursor for ergosterol and other isoprenoid-derived metabolites. Evidence supports in vivo homodimerization; localization is most commonly treated as cytosolic in engineering-focused literature, though some pathway schematics assign early modules to vacuole/mitochondria and the late steps to ER, indicating that compartmental context remains nuanced in the retrieved evidence. (benveniste2002sterolmetabolism pages 4-7, maury2005microbialisoprenoidproduction pages 9-12, sun2019mevalonatediphosphatedecarboxylase pages 1-2, johnston2020thewide‐rangingphenotypes pages 1-5, cao2020harnessingsuborganellemetabolism pages 1-2, jorda2020regulationofergosterol media b5666840)
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