vapC24 Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0240 · MTBC0 mtbc0_000256 · 145 aa · 289726–290163 (+) · RefSeq NP_214754.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)ribonuclease VapC24
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationtype II toxin-antitoxin system VapC family toxin
Revised (this work)Type II toxin-antitoxin system VapC family toxin. Pfam: PIN (PF01850.28).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WF87 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameRibonuclease VapC24
EC (curated) EC 3.1.-.-
Curated functionToxic component of a type II toxin-antitoxin (TA) system. An RNase. Its cognate antitoxin is VapB24 (By similarity).

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category G Carbohydrate transport and metabolism
Preferred namevapC
eggNOG descriptionToxic component of a toxin-antitoxin (TA) module. An RNase
Orthologous groupCOG1848
KEGG orthology K07064
Gene Ontology (6) GO:0005575, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0016020, GO:0044464, GO:0071944

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 n/a
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 0 synonymous, 3 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
PINPF01850.28 1.3e-074–126 PIN domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: vapB24 (antitoxin VapB24), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 885 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0239 vapB24 antitoxin VapB24 885 885 ctx neighborhood:882
Rv2949c chorismate pyruvate-lyase 748 749 ctx cooccurence:745
Rv0355c PPE8 PPE family protein PPE8 684 685 ctx cooccurence:683
Rv0918 hyp hypothetical protein 682 682 ctx cooccurence:681
Rv3350c PPE56 PPE family protein PPE56 668 668 ctx cooccurence:666
Rv3347c PPE55 PPE family protein PPE55 667 667 ctx cooccurence:665
Rv2490c PE_PGRS43 PE-PGRS family protein PE_PGRS43 660 660 ctx cooccurence:660
Rv0304c PPE5 PPE family protein PPE5 659 659 ctx cooccurence:657
Rv1917c PPE34 PPE family protein PPE34 656 656 ctx cooccurence:655
Rv0872c PE_PGRS15 PE-PGRS family protein PE_PGRS15 655 655 ctx cooccurence:655
Rv2209 integral membrane protein 652 652 ctx cooccurence:648
Rv3403c hyp hypothetical protein 649 650 ctx cooccurence:645
Rv1452c PE_PGRS28 PE-PGRS family protein PE_PGRS28 649 649 ctx cooccurence:649
Rv0238 transcriptional regulator 642 641 ctx neighborhood:636
Rv3864 espE ESX-1 secretion-associated protein EspE 636 636 ctx cooccurence:634

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: ribonuclease VapC24
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: type II toxin-antitoxin system VapC family toxin
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): PIN PF01850.28 (E=1e-07)
  • (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_214754.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — PIN (PF01850.28)
  • 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 COG1848
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WF87 (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 — 89 functional partner(s); context anchor vapB24
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_000256|Rv0240|vapC24
MLSIDTNILLYAQNRDCPEHDAAAAFLVECAGRADVAVCELVLMELYQLLRNPTVVTRPLEGPEAAEVCQTFRRNRRWALLENAPVMNEVWVLAATPRIARRRLFDARLALTLRHHGVDEFATRNINGFTDFGFSRVWDPITSDG