mmpL3 Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0206c · MTBC0 mtbc0_000220 · 944 aa · 244836–247670 (-) · RefSeq NP_214720.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)transmembrane transport protein MmpL3
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationtrehalose monomycolate RND transporter MmpL3
Revised (this work)Trehalose monomycolate RND transporter MmpL3. Pfam: MMPL (PF03176.22).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WJV5 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameTrehalose monomycolate exporter MmpL3
Curated functionTransports trehalose monomycolate (TMM) to the cell wall. Flips TMM across the inner membrane. Membrane potential is not required for this function. Transports probably phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) as well. Binds specifically both TMM and PE, but not trehalose dimycolate (TDM). Also binds diacylglycerol (DAG) and other phospholipids, including phosphatidylglycerol (PG), phosphatidylinositol (PI), and cardiolipin (CDL). Contributes to membrane potential, cell wall composition, antibiotic susceptibility and fitness (By similarity). Could also be part of a heme-iron acquisition system..; FUNCTIO.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category S Function unknown
Preferred namemmpL3
eggNOG descriptionlipid transport
Orthologous groupCOG2409
KEGG orthology K06994, K20466, K20470
Gene Ontology (33) GO:0005575, GO:0005576, GO:0005618, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0005887, GO:0006810, GO:0006869, GO:0008150, GO:0009273, GO:0009987, GO:0010876 +21 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 0.443 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 9 synonymous, 11 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
MMPLPF03176.22 4.4e-3847–340 MMPL family

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

Closest characterised functional partner: trmB (tRNA (guanine-N(7)-)-methyltransferase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 837 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0207c hyp hypothetical protein 874 850 ctx neighborhood:798
Rv0208c trmB tRNA (guanine-N(7)-)-methyltransferase 862 837 ctx neighborhood:798
Rv0210 hyp hypothetical protein 722 722 ctx neighborhood:721
Rv3909 hyp hypothetical protein 722 666 ctx cooccurence:663
Rv3835 hyp hypothetical protein 658 658 ctx cooccurence:653
Rv2739c transferase 640 640 ctx cooccurence:638
Rv2843 hyp hypothetical protein 588 588 ctx cooccurence:588
Rv0007 membrane protein 564 551 ctx cooccurence:464
Rv1024 membrane protein 507 507 ctx cooccurence:501
Rv0209 hyp hypothetical protein 487 487 ctx neighborhood:485
Rv3755c hyp hypothetical protein 448 448 ctx cooccurence:440
Rv0444c rskA anti-sigma-K factor RskA 437 438 ctx cooccurence:433
Rv3668c protease 430 431 ctx cooccurence:429
Rv3494c mce4F Mce family protein Mce4 411 412 ctx cooccurence:405
Rv3682 ponA2 bifunctional penicillin-insensitive transglycosylase/penicillin-sensitive transpeptidase 421 387

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: transmembrane transport protein MmpL3
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: trehalose monomycolate RND transporter MmpL3
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): MMPL PF03176.22 (E=4e-38)
  • (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_214720.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — MMPL (PF03176.22)
  • 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 COG2409
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WJV5 (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 — 41 functional partner(s); context anchor trmB
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_000220|Rv0206c|mmpL3
MFAWWGRTVYRYRFIVIGVMVALCLGGGVFGLSLGKHVTQSGFYDDGSQSVQASVLGDQVYGRDRSGHIVAIFQAPAGKTVDDPAWSKKVVDELNRFQQDHPDQVLGWAGYLRASQATGMATADKKYTFVSIPLKGDDDDTILNNYKAIAPDLQRLDGGTVKLAGLQPVAEALTGTIATDQRRMEVLALPLVAVVLFFVFGGVIAAGLPVMVGGLCIAGALGIMRFLAIFGPVHYFAQPVVSLIGLGIAIDYGLFIVSRFREEIAEGYDTETAVRRTVITAGRTVTFSAVLIVASAIGLLLFPQGFLKSLTYATIASVMLSAILSITVLPACLGILGKHVDALGVRTLFRVPFLANWKISAAYLNWLADRLQRTKTREEVEAGFWGKLVNRVMKRPVLFAAPIVIIMILLIIPVGKLSLGGISEKYLPPTNSVRQAQEEFDKLFPGYRTNPLTLVIQTSNHQPVTDAQIADIRSKAMAIGGFIEPDNDPANMWQERAYAVGASKDPSVRVLQNGLINPADASKKLTELRAITPPKGITVLVGGTPALELDSIHGLFAKMPLMVVILLTTTIVLMFLAFGSVVLPIKATLMSALTLGSTMGILTWIFVDGHFSKWLNFTPTPLTAPVIGLIIALVFGLSTDYEVFLVSRMVEARERGMSTQEAIRIGTAATGRIITAAALIVAVVAGAFVFSDLVMMKYLAFGLMAALLLDATVVRMFLVPSVMKLLGDDCWWAPRWARRLQTRIGLGEIHLPDERKRPVSNGRPARPPVTAGLVAARAAGDPRPPHDPTHPLAESPRPARSSPASSPELTPALEATAAPAAPSGASTTRMQIGSSTEPPTTRLAAAGRSVQSPASTPPPTPTPPSAPSAGQTRAMPLAANRSTDAAGDPAEPTAALPIIRSDGDDSEAATEQLNARGTSDKTRQRRRGGGALSAQDLLRREGRL