recF Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0003 · MTBC0 mtbc0_000003 · 385 aa · 3280–4437 (+) · RefSeq NP_214517.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)DNA replication/repair protein RecF
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationDNA replication/repair protein RecF
Revised (this work)DNA replication/repair protein RecF. Pfam: SMC_N (PF02463.26), AAA_23 (PF13476.13).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WHI9 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameDNA replication and repair protein RecF
Curated functionThe RecF protein is involved in DNA metabolism; it is required for DNA replication and normal SOS inducibility. RecF binds preferentially to single-stranded, linear DNA. It also seems to bind ATP (By similarity).

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category L Replication, recombination and repair
Preferred namerecF
eggNOG descriptionit is required for DNA replication and normal SOS inducibility. RecF binds preferentially to single-stranded, linear DNA. It also seems to bind ATP
Orthologous groupCOG1195
KEGG orthology K03629
KEGG pathways map03440
Gene Ontology (46) GO:0000731, GO:0005575, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0005829, GO:0005886, GO:0006139, GO:0006259, GO:0006281, GO:0006302, GO:0006725 +34 more

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 0.466 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 7 synonymous, 9 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
SMC_NPF02463.26 6.4e-172–353 RecF/RecN/SMC N terminal domain
AAA_23PF13476.13 1.4e-086–74 AAA domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: dnaN (DNA polymerase III subunit beta), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 945 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0002 dnaN DNA polymerase III subunit beta 992 945 ctx neighborhood:855 coexpression:481 textmining:863
Rv0004 hyp hypothetical protein 931 903 ctx neighborhood:881
Rv0005 gyrB DNA gyrase subunit B 975 900 ctx neighborhood:727 coexpression:650 textmining:769
Rv0001 dnaA chromosomal replication initiator protein DnaA 958 712 coexpression:520 textmining:862
Rv0007 membrane protein 649 616 ctx neighborhood:612
Rv2147c sepF cell division protein SepF 685 573 ctx cooccurence:553
Rv0006 gyrA DNA gyrase subunit A 861 548 ctx neighborhood:525 textmining:707
Rv2116 lppK lipoprotein LppK 555 496 coexpression:467
Rv2838c rbfA ribosome-binding factor RbfA 490 471 coexpression:455
Rv2361c uppS decaprenyl diphosphate synthase 484 463
Rv1122 gnd2 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (decarboxylating) 590 461 ctx neighborhood:458
Rv3715c recR recombination protein RecR 852 459 textmining:738
Rv0949 uvrD1 ATP-dependent DNA helicase UvrD 503 456 ctx cooccurence:455
Rv1020 mfd transcription-repair coupling factor 485 453
Rv3423c alr alanine racemase 471 424 ctx cooccurence:422

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 replication/repair protein RecF
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: DNA replication/repair protein RecF
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): SMC_N PF02463.26 (E=6e-17), AAA_23 PF13476.13 (E=1e-08)
  • (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_214517.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — SMC_N (PF02463.26), AAA_23 (PF13476.13)
  • 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 COG1195
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WHI9 (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 — 50 functional partner(s); context anchor dnaN
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_000003|Rv0003|recF
MYVRHLGLRDFRSWACVDLELHPGRTVFVGPNGYGKTNLIEALWYSTTLGSHRVSADLPLIRVGTDRAVISTIVVNDGRECAVDLEIATGRVNKARLNRSSVRSTRDVVGVLRAVLFAPEDLGLVRGDPADRRRYLDDLAIVRRPAIAAVRAEYERVLRQRTALLKSVPGARYRGDRGVFDTLEVWDSRLAEHGAELVAARIDLVNQLAPEVKKAYQLLAPESRSASIGYRASMDVTGPSEQSDTDRQLLAARLLAALAARRDAELERGVCLVGPHRDDLILRLGDQPAKGFASHGEAWSLAVALRLAAYQLLRVDGGEPVLLLDDVFAELDVMRRRALATAAESAEQVLVTAAVLEDIPAGWDARRVHIDVRADDTGSMSVVLP