Rv0029 Still unknown · low

H37Rv Rv0029 · MTBC0 mtbc0_000035 · 365 aa · 32043–33140 (+) · RefSeq NP_214543.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)hypothetical protein
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationDUF5631 domain-containing protein
Revised (this work)Conserved hypothetical protein; tandem DUF5631 + DUF5632 domains. Foldseek finds a significant structural match to Rv3899c (PDB 5IMU), another conserved hypothetical M. tuberculosis protein of unknown function (a proposed vaccine candidate): the fold is thus structurally characterised but the biological function remains unassigned.

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P71599 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameTransmembrane protein

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

Orthologous group2A1TI

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 0.794 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 6 synonymous, 13 missense, 0 nonsense, 2 frameshift
Disruption 2 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 2.26% of strains (3276) · 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
DUF5632PF18646.7 1.5e-35165–243 Family of unknown function (DUF5632)
DUF5631PF18645.7 1.5e-36268–361 Family of unknown function (DUF5631)

Structural neighbours (Foldseek on the ESMFold model, exploratory)

ESMFold model confidence: mean pLDDT 86.0 (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
5imu-assembly1_A 1.00 0.89 3.1e-16 sig 5imu-assembly1_A A fragment of conserved hypothetical protein Rv3899c (residues 184-410) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
8ako-assembly1_B 0.77 0.26 3.2e-03 sig 8ako-assembly1_B Structure of EspB-EspK complex: the non-identical twin of the PE-PPE-EspG secretion mechanism.
5zug-assembly1_F 0.08 0.49 7.1e+00 5zug-assembly1_F Structure of the bacterial acetate channel SatP
7z38-assembly1_D 0.07 0.23 4.9e+00 7z38-assembly1_D Structure of the RAF1-HSP90-CDC37 complex (RHC-I)
5d56-assembly1_A 0.06 0.37 7.1e+00 5d56-assembly1_A In meso in situ serial X-ray crystallography structure of diacylglycerol kinase, DgkA, at 100 K
5ku9-assembly2_B 0.04 0.28 5.2e+00 5ku9-assembly2_B Crystal structure of MCL1 with compound 1
7nyx-assembly1_C 0.04 0.23 8.3e+00 7nyx-assembly1_C Cryo-EM structure of the MukBEF-MatP-DNA monomer (closed conformation)

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

Closest characterised functional partner: eccC2 (ESX-2 type VII secretion system protein EccC), medium confidence from genomic context alone (score 551 excluding text-mining). This association is the citable seed of a function hypothesis for this hypothetical protein.

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0030 hyp hypothetical protein 798 798 ctx neighborhood:792
Rv0028 hyp hypothetical protein 730 731 ctx neighborhood:728
Rv3372 otsB2 trehalose 6-phosphate phosphatase 656 656 coexpression:656
Rv0027 hyp hypothetical protein 654 653 ctx neighborhood:650
Rv2006 otsB1 trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase OtsB 652 653 coexpression:653
Rv3894c eccC2 ESX-2 type VII secretion system protein EccC 550 551 ctx neighborhood:544
Rv0031 Rv0031, (MTCY10H4.31), len: 70 aa. Possible remnant of a transposase, showing partial similarity to mycobacterial transposases in a short ov 510 510 ctx neighborhood:507
Rv0182c sigG ECF RNA polymerase sigma factor SigG 411 389

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: 'DUF5631 domain-containing protein'
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): DUF5632 PF18646 (E=1.5e-35) + DUF5631 PF18645 (E=1.5e-36) -- two tandem domains of unknown function
  • Foldseek on the ESMFold model: significant match to Rv3899c (PDB 5IMU), prob 1.00, E=3.1e-16, TM=0.89 -- a fold shared with another uncharacterised Mtb protein; weak secondary hit to the ESX EspB-EspK complex is non-conclusive

ESM Atlas signal (exploratory)

Ancestral protein hash a02a2d3e27dcbfe03c075cc12fd78de4. SAE features are orienting indices, not validated domains.

#IndexActivationInterpretation
112612 1.30 Secretion signals and low-complexity tracts
21056 1.00 C-terminal low-complexity disordered tails
35883 0.97 Mycobacterial PE/PGRS low-complexity repeats
42267 0.97 Pro/Gly-rich low-complexity repeats
511576 0.82 Long C-terminal appendages
68959 0.80 Long low-complexity IDRs
712600 0.77 Glycine-centric low-complexity and turns
812453 0.76 Secretion IDRs and toxic domains

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_214543.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — DUF5632 (PF18646.7), DUF5631 (PF18645.7)
  • 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 2A1TI
  • Curated reference: UniProt P71599 (TrEMBL, unreviewed; 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 86.0, confident)
  • Interaction network: STRING v12.0 (Szklarczyk et al. 2023, doi:10.1093/nar/gkac1000), taxon 83332, CC-BY 4.0 — 8 functional partner(s); context anchor eccC2
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_000035|Rv0029|
MAIFGRWSARQRLRRATRESLTIPTFSSSLDCTTRVIGGLWPAELSSNTAETATLAEHLKADLHRIVGSANDELMVIWRAGMADSTRRAEEDRVIDRARASAMRRVESAMRELRQITGRVPVEIPRMRGAGGSDLDTTRLMPAVTVVQPADQACTDWPVAAAEDDEARLQRLLAFVARQEPRLNWAVGVHADGTTVLVTDVAHGWIPPGIALPEGVRLLAPARRAGRAPELVGITTCCKTYTPGDSLRRAVDSTAPTSSVQPRALPAIAGLSVELGIATQRHDGLPKIVHAMATAAGNGAAAEEVDLLRVHVDTALHHVLAQYPRVDPALLLNCMLLAATERSVTGDPIAANYHFAWFRELDSRR