Rv0025 Still unknown · low

H37Rv Rv0025 · MTBC0 mtbc0_000030 · 120 aa · 29227–29589 (+) · RefSeq NP_214539.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)hypothetical protein
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationDUF4226 domain-containing protein
Revised (this work)Conserved hypothetical protein; DUF4226 domain-containing. Function unknown.

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WMA1 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameUncharacterized protein Rv0025

UniProt still lists this protein as Uncharacterized protein Rv0025; the revised annotation above is ahead of the current UniProt record.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category S Function unknown
eggNOG descriptionDomain of unknown function (DUF4226)
Orthologous group2BA8J

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) pseudogene candidate

pN/pS 0.676 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 2 synonymous, 4 missense, 0 nonsense, 2 frameshift
Disruption 2 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 9.68% of strains (14052) · clonal

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
DUF4226PF10774.16 3.7e-426–119 Domain of unknown function (DUF4226)

Structural neighbours (Foldseek on the ESMFold model, exploratory)

ESMFold model confidence: mean pLDDT 76.8 (confident). A confident model makes the fold comparison meaningful.

Best matches against the PDB, ranked by Foldseek homology probability. A high probability / TM-score suggests a shared fold; unless flagged sig (E < 0.01) these are fold hypotheses, not assignments.

TargetProbTME-valueDescription
6zw6-assembly1_G 0.51 0.65 2.7e+00 6zw6-assembly1_G C16 symmetry: Bacterial Vipp1 and PspA are members of the ancient ESCRT-III membrane-remodeling superfamily.
6nct-assembly1_B 0.47 0.67 3.1e+00 6nct-assembly1_B Structure of p110alpha/niSH2 - vector data collection
6zw5-assembly1_F 0.30 0.64 4.5e+00 6zw5-assembly1_F C15 symmetry: Bacterial Vipp1 and PspA are members of the ancient ESCRT-III membrane-remodeling superfamily.
4ovu-assembly1_B 0.28 0.66 5.7e+00 4ovu-assembly1_B Crystal Structure of p110alpha in complex with niSH2 of p85alpha
3hai-assembly2_D 0.15 0.35 1.2e+00 3hai-assembly2_D Crystal structure of human PACSIN1 F-BAR domain (P21 lattice)
8to0-assembly1_GU 0.13 0.41 3.7e+00 8to0-assembly1_GU 48-nm repeating structure of doublets from mouse sperm flagella
6ewy-assembly1_A 0.08 0.45 8.2e+00 6ewy-assembly1_A RipA Peptidoglycan hydrolase (Rv1477, Mycobacterium tuberculosis) N-terminal domain
7o3x-assembly1_C 0.07 0.39 8.2e+00 7o3x-assembly1_C Structural basis for VIPP1 oligomerization and maintenance of thylakoid membrane integrity

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

Closest characterised functional partner: Rv0023 (transcriptional regulator), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 833 excluding text-mining). This association is the citable seed of a function hypothesis for this hypothetical protein.

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0023 transcriptional regulator 833 833 ctx neighborhood:826
Rv0022c whiB5 transcriptional regulator WhiB5 737 738 ctx neighborhood:737
Rv0024 NLP/P60 family protein 727 728 ctx neighborhood:716
Rv0027 hyp hypothetical protein 691 691 ctx neighborhood:690
Rv0028 hyp hypothetical protein 661 661 ctx neighborhood:660
Rv0026 hyp hypothetical protein 641 641 ctx neighborhood:638

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

  • MTBC0 PGAP product: 'DUF4226 domain-containing protein' (a domain of unknown function)
  • No literature hit in tbmonitor (2021-2026); remains genuinely uncharacterised
  • Foldseek on the ESMFold model: weak, non-significant fold similarity to the PspA/Vipp1 (ESCRT-III) coiled-coil membrane-remodeling superfamily (prob 0.51, TM 0.65), convergent with the SAE coiled-coil features -- suggestive only

ESM Atlas signal (exploratory)

Ancestral protein hash 0bb7268e90bbe9fe8056a366027eaaed · 10 ESM-space neighbours (max similarity 0.962). SAE features are orienting indices, not validated domains.

#IndexActivationInterpretation
12916 1.32 Secretion-targeting helical coiled-coils
22267 1.24 Pro/Gly-rich low-complexity repeats
39670 1.04 Elongated amphipathic coiled-coils
45883 0.98 Mycobacterial PE/PGRS low-complexity repeats
55094 0.91 N-terminal secretion-targeting helices
68583 0.83 N-terminal secretion helices
75992 0.72 Glycine-centered amphipathic helix-turn motifs
815605 0.60 Secretory coiled-coils and low-complexity linkers

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_214539.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — DUF4226 (PF10774.16)
  • 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 2BA8J
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WMA1 (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)
  • Model confidence: ESMFold per-residue pLDDT (mean 76.8, confident)
  • Interaction network: STRING v12.0 (Szklarczyk et al. 2023, doi:10.1093/nar/gkac1000), taxon 83332, CC-BY 4.0 — 6 functional partner(s); context anchor Rv0023
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_000030|Rv0025|
MSEQAGSSVAVIQERQALLARQHDAVAEADRELADVLASAHAAMRESVRRLDAIAAELDRAVPDQDQLAVDTPMGAREFQTFLVAKQREIVAVVAAAHELDRAKSAVLKRLRAQYTEPAR