glyA2 Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0070c · MTBC0 mtbc0_000077 · 425 aa · 77764–79041 (-) · RefSeq NP_214584.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)serine hydroxymethyltransferase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationserine hydroxymethyltransferase
Revised (this work)Serine hydroxymethyltransferase. Pfam: SHMT (PF00464.26), Aminotran_1_2 (PF00155.28), DegT_DnrJ_EryC1 (PF01041.24).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WGI7 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameSerine hydroxymethyltransferase 2
EC (curated) EC 2.1.2.1
Curated functionCatalyzes the reversible interconversion of serine and glycine with tetrahydrofolate (THF) serving as the one-carbon carrier. This reaction serves as the major source of one-carbon groups required for the biosynthesis of purines, thymidylate, methionine, and other important biomolecules. Also exhibits THF-independent aldolase activity toward beta-hydroxyamino acids, producing glycine and aldehydes, via a retro-aldol mechanism. Thus, is able to catalyze the cleavage of L-allo-threonine.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category E Amino acid transport and metabolism
Preferred nameglyA
eggNOG descriptionCatalyzes the reversible interconversion of serine and glycine with tetrahydrofolate (THF) serving as the one-carbon carrier. This reaction serves as the major source of one-carbon groups required for the biosynthesis of purines, thymidylate, methionine, and other important biomolecules. Also exhibits THF- independent aldolase activity toward beta-hydroxyamino acids, producing glycine and aldehydes, via a retro-aldol mechanism
Orthologous groupCOG0112
EC number EC 2.1.2.1
KEGG orthology K00600
KEGG pathways map00260, map00460, map00630, map00670, map00680, map01100, map01110, map01120, map01130, map01200, map01230, map01523
KEGG modules M00140, M00141, M00346, M00532
Gene Ontology (50) GO:0001505, GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0004372, GO:0005488, GO:0005515, GO:0005575, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0006082, GO:0006520, GO:0006544 +38 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 0.769 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 4 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
SHMTPF00464.26 1.1e-1539–390 Serine hydroxymethyltransferase
Aminotran_1_2PF00155.28 2.0e-0885–369 Aminotransferase class I and II
DegT_DnrJ_EryC1PF01041.24 4.9e-05143–260 DegT/DnrJ/EryC1/StrS aminotransferase family

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

Closest characterised functional partner: sdaA (L-serine dehydratase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 997 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0069c sdaA L-serine dehydratase 998 997 ctx neighborhood:801 coexpression:839 database:900 textmining:518
Rv1832 gcvB glycine dehydrogenase 995 992 coexpression:910 database:900 textmining:477
Rv2211c gcvT aminomethyltransferase 994 991 ctx fusion:792 coexpression:469 database:900 textmining:450
Rv0957 purH bifunctional phosphoribosylaminoimidazolecarboxamide formyltransferase/inosinemonophosphate cyclohydrolase 983 976 coexpression:727 database:900
Rv3356c folD bifunctional methylenetetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase/methenyltetrahydrofolate cyclohydrolase 982 971 coexpression:647 database:900 textmining:415
Rv0956 purN phosphoribosylglycinamide formyltransferase PurN 966 953 coexpression:458 database:900
Rv1826 gcvH glycine cleavage system protein H 963 950 coexpression:458 database:900
Rv1077 cbs cystathionine beta-synthase 945 919 database:900
Rv2754c thyX thymidylate synthase ThyX 940 919 database:900
Rv3042c serB2 phosphoserine phosphatase SerB 949 916 database:900 textmining:421
Rv2964 purU formyltetrahydrofolate deformylase 943 916 database:900
Rv0462 lpdC dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase 919 915 database:900
Rv0389 purT phosphoribosylglycinamide formyltransferase PurT 916 913 database:900
Rv1613 trpA tryptophan synthase subunit alpha 921 911 database:900
Rv2763c dfrA dihydrofolate reductase 921 911 database:900

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: serine hydroxymethyltransferase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: serine hydroxymethyltransferase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): SHMT PF00464.26 (E=1e-153), Aminotran_1_2 PF00155.28 (E=2e-08), DegT_DnrJ_EryC1 PF01041.24 (E=5e-05)
  • (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_214584.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — SHMT (PF00464.26), Aminotran_1_2 (PF00155.28), DegT_DnrJ_EryC1 (PF01041.24)
  • 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 COG0112
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WGI7 (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 — 95 functional partner(s); context anchor sdaA
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_000077|Rv0070c|glyA2
MNTLNDSLTAFDPDIAALIDGELRRQESGLEMIASENYAPLAVMQAQGSVLTNKYAEGYPGRRYYGGCEFVDGVEQLAIDRVKALFGAEYANVQPHSGATANAATMHALLNPGDTILGLSLAHGGHLTHGMRINFSGKLYHATAYEVSKEDYLVDMDAVAEAARTHRPKMIIAGWSAYPRQLDFARFRAIADEVDAVLMVDMAHFAGLVAAGVHPSPVPHAHVVTSTTHKTLGGPRGGIILCNDPAIAKKINSAVFPGQQGGPLEHVIAAKATAFKMAAQPEFAQRQQRCLDGARILAGRLTQPDVAERGIAVLTGGTDVHLVLVDLRDAELDGQQAEDRLAAVDITVNRNAVPFDPRPPMITSGLRIGTPALAARGFSHNDFRAVADLIAAALTATNDDQLGPLRAQVQRLAARYPLYPELHRT