lipW Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0217c · MTBC0 mtbc0_000231 · 302 aa · 260304–261212 (-) · RefSeq NP_214731.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)esterase LipW
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationalpha/beta hydrolase
Revised (this work)Alpha/beta hydrolase. Pfam: BD-FAE (PF20434.6), Abhydrolase_3 (PF07859.20), AXE1 (PF05448.19).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P96399 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt namePossible esterase LipW

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category I Lipid transport and metabolism
Preferred namelipW
eggNOG descriptionAlpha beta hydrolase
Orthologous groupCOG0657

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 0.567 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 4 synonymous, 6 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
BD-FAEPF20434.6 4.5e-1761–163 BD-FAE
Abhydrolase_3PF07859.20 5.0e-6274–271 alpha/beta hydrolase fold
AXE1PF05448.19 4.4e-05124–171 Acetyl xylan esterase (AXE1)

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

Closest characterised functional partner: lipC (esterase LipC), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 848 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0220 lipC esterase LipC 972 848 ctx neighborhood:623 cooccurence:614 textmining:825
Rv0218 transmembrane protein 641 641 ctx neighborhood:636
Rv0219 transmembrane protein 602 602 ctx neighborhood:600
Rv3097c lipY triacylglycerol lipase Lip 791 591 ctx cooccurence:591 textmining:511
Rv0221 diacyglycerol O-acyltransferase 822 513 ctx neighborhood:513 textmining:651
Rv2903c lepB signal peptidase 500 481 database:464
Rv0310c hyp hypothetical protein 480 477 experimental:439
Rv3153 nuoI NADH-quinone oxidoreductase subunit I 451 452 experimental:440
Rv3151 nuoG NADH-quinone oxidoreductase subunit G 471 447 experimental:441
Rv0222 echA1 enoyl-CoA hydratase EchA1 466 445 ctx neighborhood:436
Rv3149 nuoE NADH-quinone oxidoreductase subunit E 443 444 experimental:440
Rv3150 nuoF NADH-quinone oxidoreductase subunit F 442 443 experimental:441
Rv2195 qcrA ubiquinol-cytochrome C reductase rieske iron-sulfur subunit 429 430 experimental:426
Rv2946c pks1 polyketide synthase 473 421
Rv2782c pepR zinc protease 439 414 experimental:413

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: esterase LipW
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: alpha/beta hydrolase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): BD-FAE PF20434.6 (E=4e-17), Abhydrolase_3 PF07859.20 (E=5e-62), AXE1 PF05448.19 (E=4e-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_214731.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — BD-FAE (PF20434.6), Abhydrolase_3 (PF07859.20), AXE1 (PF05448.19)
  • 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 COG0657
  • Curated reference: UniProt P96399 (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)
  • Interaction network: STRING v12.0 (Szklarczyk et al. 2023, doi:10.1093/nar/gkac1000), taxon 83332, CC-BY 4.0 — 43 functional partner(s); context anchor lipC
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_000231|Rv0217c|lipW
MSGNEVHPDLRRIAVVTPRQLVGPRTLPVMRALIVVAGLRMSRTPPDIEVLTLESGVGVRLYRPAGSNEPAPALLWIHAGGYVMGTAQQDDRLCLRFSSRLGITVASVDYRLAPENPYPAALGDCYSALTWLASLPAVDPARVAIGGASAGGGLAAALALLARDRGGITPAFQLLVYPMLDDRTSIAPANPHYRLWNGRANRFGWRAYLGDADARVAVPGRRDDLGGLAPAWIGVGTHDLLHDEDLAYAERLTAAGVPCQVEVVEGAFHGFDRVAPNVGVSQRFFTSQCNSLRAALALSNRT