dnaN Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0002 · MTBC0 mtbc0_000002 · 402 aa · 2052–3260 (+) · RefSeq NP_214516.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)DNA polymerase III subunit beta
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationDNA polymerase III subunit beta
Revised (this work)DNA polymerase III subunit beta. Pfam: DNA_pol3_beta (PF00712.25), DNA_pol3_beta_2 (PF02767.22), DNA_pol3_beta_3 (PF02768.21).

Auto-curated: this verdict and function were generated by rules from PGAP + Pfam + Foldseek and have not been hand-reviewed.

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WNU1 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameBeta sliding clamp
Curated functionConfers DNA tethering and processivity to DNA polymerases and other proteins. Acts as a clamp, forming a ring around DNA (a reaction catalyzed by the clamp-loading complex) which diffuses in an ATP-independent manner freely and bidirectionally along dsDNA. Initially characterized for its ability to contact the catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase III (Pol III), a complex, multichain enzyme responsible for most of the replicative synthesis in bacteria; Pol III exhibits 3'-5' exonuclease proofreading activity. The beta chain is required for initiation of replication as well as for processivity of.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category L Replication, recombination and repair
Preferred namednaN
eggNOG descriptionConfers DNA tethering and processivity to DNA polymerases and other proteins. Acts as a clamp, forming a ring around DNA (a reaction catalyzed by the clamp-loading complex) which diffuses in an ATP-independent manner freely and bidirectionally along dsDNA. Initially characterized for its ability to contact the catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase III (Pol III), a complex, multichain enzyme responsible for most of the replicative synthesis in bacteria
Orthologous groupCOG0592
EC number EC 2.7.7.7
KEGG orthology K02338
KEGG pathways map00230, map00240, map01100, map03030, map03430, map03440
KEGG modules M00260
Gene Ontology (7) GO:0005575, GO:0005576, GO:0005618, GO:0005623, GO:0030312, GO:0044464, GO:0071944

Orthology-based transfer (eggNOG 5.0.2, diamond). EC/KO/GO/CAZy are computed annotations, not manual curation; cross-check against the primary literature before treating a specific reaction as established.

Conservation & selection (intra-MTBC, 145 209 strains)

pN/pS 0.365 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 7 synonymous, 7 missense, 0 nonsense, 0 frameshift

pN/pS from segregating SNPs (singletons removed) normalised by possible sites. Low pN/pS = purifying selection (a strong signal that a "hypothetical" is a real, constrained gene). A high pN/pS is ambiguous: relaxed constraint or positive selection (drug resistance, antigenic variation) inflate it; e.g. rpoB/katG/pncA score high here for resistance, not loss of function. A clonal disruption (one allele over a clade) suggests lineage pseudogenisation; a convergent one (many independent alleles) is typical of resistance loss-of-function.

Domains (Pfam, hmmscan --cut_ga)

PfamAccessioni-EvalueResiduesDescription
DNA_pol3_betaPF00712.25 3.4e-3914–130 DNA polymerase III beta subunit, N-terminal domain
DNA_pol3_beta_2PF02767.22 3.6e-32139–260 DNA polymerase III beta subunit, central domain
DNA_pol3_beta_3PF02768.21 1.4e-34262–371 DNA polymerase III beta subunit, C-terminal domain

Functional interaction network (STRING v12, guilt-by-association)

Closest characterised functional partner: Rv3644c (DNA polymerase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 987 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1629 polA DNA polymerase I 997 995 coexpression:414 experimental:970 database:630 textmining:508
Rv1547 dnaE1 DNA polymerase III subunit alpha 993 988 experimental:858 database:900 textmining:490
Rv2413c hyp hypothetical protein 989 988 experimental:829 database:900
Rv3644c DNA polymerase 988 987 ctx cooccurence:454 experimental:773 database:900
Rv3721c dnaZX DNA polymerase III subunit gamma/tau 997 980 experimental:773 database:900 textmining:881
Rv0001 dnaA chromosomal replication initiator protein DnaA 998 966 ctx cooccurence:520 coexpression:711 experimental:737 textmining:965
Rv2191 hyp hypothetical protein 967 954 experimental:481 database:900
Rv3711c dnaQ DNA polymerase III subunit epsilon 979 950 experimental:481 database:900 textmining:600
Rv0003 recF DNA replication/repair protein RecF 992 945 ctx neighborhood:855 coexpression:481 textmining:863
Rv2090 5'-3' exonuclease 948 944 experimental:772 database:630
Rv2101 helZ helicase HelZ 920 912 experimental:769 database:614
Rv1537 dinX DNA polymerase IV 941 907 experimental:766 database:612
Rv3056 dinP DNA polymerase IV 2 919 907 experimental:766 database:612
Rv3731 ligC DNA ligase C 892 886 experimental:629 database:609
Rv0938 ligD multifunctional non-homologous end joining DNA repair protein/ATP dependent DNA ligase LigD 895 885 experimental:629 database:609

STRING combines evidence channels (neighborhood, fusion, cooccurrence, coexpression, experimental, database, text-mining) into a 0–1000 score. The ctx badge marks edges carried by the genomic-context channels (conserved neighborhood, fusion, phylogenetic co-occurrence), which are independent of orthology and structure and the strongest signal for an unknown gene. The no text-mining column recomputes the score from data alone, so a link that does not depend on the literature is visible. Association is a function hypothesis, not proof: corroborate with the operon context and the primary literature before assigning a function.

Evidence

  • Legacy H37Rv annotation: DNA polymerase III subunit beta
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: DNA polymerase III subunit beta
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): DNA_pol3_beta PF00712.25 (E=3e-39), DNA_pol3_beta_2 PF02767.22 (E=4e-32), DNA_pol3_beta_3 PF02768.21 (E=1e-34)
  • (auto-curated by rules from PGAP + Pfam + Foldseek; not hand-reviewed)

Sources

  • Ancestral sequence & coordinates: Harrison LB et al. (2024), An imputed ancestral reference genome for the MTBC, doi:10.1101/2023.09.07.556366
  • Product annotation: NCBI PGAP on MTBC0; legacy from H37Rv NC_000962.3 (RefSeq NP_214516.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — DNA_pol3_beta (PF00712.25), DNA_pol3_beta_2 (PF02767.22), DNA_pol3_beta_3 (PF02768.21)
  • Sequence-level signal: ESM Atlas (EvolutionaryScale × BioHub) — exploratory
  • Controlled vocabulary: eggNOG-mapper 2.1.12 (Cantalapiedra et al. 2021, doi:10.1093/molbev/msab293), eggNOG 5.0 DB (Huerta-Cepas et al. 2019) — OG COG0592
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WNU1 (SwissProt, reviewed; Evidence at protein level)
  • Intra-MTBC selection: pN/pS and disruption from SPDI variants of 145 209 MTBC strains (this work, local collection vs H37Rv NC_000962.3)
  • Interaction network: STRING v12.0 (Szklarczyk et al. 2023, doi:10.1093/nar/gkac1000), taxon 83332, CC-BY 4.0 — 174 functional partner(s); context anchor Rv3644c
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_000002|Rv0002|dnaN
MDAATTRVGLTDLTFRLLRESFADAVSWVAKNLPARPAVPVLSGVLLTGSDNGLTISGFDYEVSAEAQVGAEIVSPGSVLVSGRLLSDITRALPNKPVDVHVEGNRVALTCGNARFSLPTMPVEDYPTLPTLPEETGLLPAELFAEAISQVAIAAGRDDTLPMLTGIRVEILGETVVLAATDRFRLAVRELKWSASSPDIEAAVLVPAKTLAEAAKAGIGGSDVRLSLGTGPGVGKDGLLGISGNGKRSTTRLLDAEFPKFRQLLPTEHTAVATMDVAELIEAIKLVALVADRGAQVRMEFADGSVRLSAGADDVGRAEEDLVVDYAGEPLTIAFNPTYLTDGLSSLRSERVSFGFTTAGKPALLRPVSGDDRPVAGLNGNGPFPAVSTDYVYLLMPVRLPG