cobU Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0254c · MTBC0 mtbc0_000270 · 174 aa · 306207–306731 (-) · RefSeq NP_214768.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)bifunctional cobinamide kinase/cobinamide phosphate guanylyltransferase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationbifunctional adenosylcobinamide kinase/adenosylcobinamide-phosphate guanylyltransferase
Revised (this work)Bifunctional adenosylcobinamide kinase/adenosylcobinamide-phosphate guanylyltransferase. Pfam: CobU (PF02283.23).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt O53676 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameAdenosylcobinamide kinase
EC (curated) EC 2.7.1.156, EC 2.7.7.62
Curated functionCatalyzes ATP-dependent phosphorylation of adenosylcobinamide and addition of GMP to adenosylcobinamide phosphate.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category H Coenzyme transport and metabolism
Preferred namecobU
eggNOG descriptioncobinamide kinase
Orthologous groupCOG2087
EC number EC 2.7.1.156, EC 2.7.7.62
KEGG orthology K02231
KEGG pathways map00860, map01100
KEGG modules M00122

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 0.13 · strong purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 3 synonymous, 1 missense, 0 nonsense, 1 frameshift
Disruption 1 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.26% of strains (381) · 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
CobUPF02283.23 4.8e-483–174 Cobinamide kinase / cobinamide phosphate guanyltransferase

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

Closest characterised functional partner: cobT (nicotinate-nucleotide-dimethylbenzimidazol phosphoribosyltransferase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 994 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2207 cobT nicotinate-nucleotide-dimethylbenzimidazol phosphoribosyltransferase 996 994 ctx neighborhood:461 fusion:899 cooccurence:768 coexpression:557 textmining:421
Rv2208 cobS adenosylcobinamide-GDP ribazoletransferase 995 990 ctx neighborhood:461 cooccurence:772 database:900 textmining:539
Rv0255c cobQ1 cobyric acid synthase 998 989 ctx neighborhood:757 fusion:640 cooccurence:769 coexpression:525 textmining:845
Rv2236c cobD cobalamin biosynthesis transmembrane protein CobD 998 988 ctx cooccurence:764 coexpression:459 database:900 textmining:845
Rv2849c cobO cob(I)alamin adenosyltransferase 998 967 ctx cooccurence:636 database:900 textmining:965
Rv1314c cob(I)yrinic acid a,c-diamide adenosyltransferase 933 908 database:900
Rv2848c cobB cobyrinic acid A,C-diamide synthase 931 879 ctx cooccurence:624 coexpression:649 textmining:457
Rv2066 cobIJ bifunctional S-adenosyl-L-methionine-precorrin-2 methyl transferase/precorrin-3 methylase 877 707 coexpression:407 textmining:600
Rv0256c PPE2 PPE family protein PPE2 891 693 ctx neighborhood:690 textmining:660
Rv2065 cobH precorrin-8X methylmutase 881 673 ctx cooccurence:427 textmining:654
Rv2071c cobM precorrin-4 C(11)-methyltransferase 954 634 ctx cooccurence:461 textmining:880
Rv2135c hyp hypothetical protein 571 546 ctx cooccurence:419
Rv2072c cobL precorrin-6Y C(5,15)-methyltransferase 971 523 textmining:943
Rv2847c cysG multifunctional uroporphyrin-III C-methyltransferase/precorrin-2 oxidase/ferrochelatase 725 476 textmining:498
Rv2206 transmembrane protein 461 461 ctx neighborhood:461

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: bifunctional cobinamide kinase/cobinamide phosphate guanylyltransferase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: bifunctional adenosylcobinamide kinase/adenosylcobinamide-phosphate guanylyltransferase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): CobU PF02283.23 (E=5e-48)
  • (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_214768.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — CobU (PF02283.23)
  • 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 COG2087
  • Curated reference: UniProt O53676 (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 — 42 functional partner(s); context anchor cobT
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_000270|Rv0254c|cobU
MRILVTGGVRSGKSTHAEALLGDAADVVYVAPGRPAAGSDPDWDARVALHRARRPPTWLTVETADVATALSEARSPVLVDCLGTWLTAIMDGEALWSAATADVYAVLEARLDGLCAALTGLPTAIVVTNEVGLGVVPSHSSGVLFRDLLGTINRRVAAVCDEVHLVIAGRVLKL