cobQ1 Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0255c · MTBC0 - · 494 aa · 306374–307858 (-) · RefSeq YP_177703.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)cobyric acid synthase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Cobyric acid synthase. Pfam: AAA_26 (PF13500.13), CbiA (PF01656.30), GATase_3 (PF07685.21).

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

Annotated on the H37Rv protein: this gene has no 1:1 ancestral MTBC0 anchor (PE/PPE, paralogue, IS element, or otherwise unanchored CDS).

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WP95 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameCobyric acid synthase
Curated functionCatalyzes amidations at positions B, D, E, and G on adenosylcobyrinic A,C-diamide. NH(2) groups are provided by glutamine, and one molecule of ATP is hydrogenolyzed for each amidation (By similarity).

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category H Coenzyme transport and metabolism
Preferred namecobQ
eggNOG descriptionCatalyzes amidations at positions B, D, E, and G on adenosylcobyrinic A,C-diamide. NH(2) groups are provided by glutamine, and one molecule of ATP is hydrogenolyzed for each amidation
Orthologous groupCOG1492
EC number EC 6.3.5.10
KEGG orthology K02232
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 0.479 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 7 synonymous, 9 missense, 0 nonsense, 1 frameshift
Disruption 1 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.36% of strains (519) · 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
AAA_26PF13500.13 9.3e-153–233 AAA domain
CbiAPF01656.30 3.7e-245–234 CobQ/CobB/MinD/ParA nucleotide binding domain
GATase_3PF07685.21 1.8e-43255–429 CobB/CobQ-like glutamine amidotransferase domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: cobIJ (bifunctional S-adenosyl-L-methionine-precorrin-2 methyl transferase/precorrin-3 methylase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 999 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2066 cobIJ bifunctional S-adenosyl-L-methionine-precorrin-2 methyl transferase/precorrin-3 methylase 999 999 ctx fusion:726 cooccurence:469 coexpression:990 textmining:596
Rv0254c cobU bifunctional cobinamide kinase/cobinamide phosphate guanylyltransferase 998 989 ctx neighborhood:757 fusion:640 cooccurence:769 coexpression:525 textmining:845
Rv2236c cobD cobalamin biosynthesis transmembrane protein CobD 994 981 ctx cooccurence:774 database:900 textmining:734
Rv2849c cobO cob(I)alamin adenosyltransferase 989 971 ctx cooccurence:674 database:900 textmining:648
Rv2065 cobH precorrin-8X methylmutase 977 970 ctx fusion:589 cooccurence:650 coexpression:778
Rv2848c cobB cobyrinic acid A,C-diamide synthase 968 958 ctx fusion:667 cooccurence:766 coexpression:426
Rv2071c cobM precorrin-4 C(11)-methyltransferase 957 944 ctx cooccurence:724 coexpression:774
Rv2231c cobC aminotransferase 952 944 ctx fusion:899
Rv1314c cob(I)yrinic acid a,c-diamide adenosyltransferase 918 910 database:900
Rv2208 cobS adenosylcobinamide-GDP ribazoletransferase 946 900 ctx cooccurence:772 coexpression:508 textmining:485
Rv2070c cobK precorrin-6A reductase 912 885 coexpression:799
Rv2207 cobT nicotinate-nucleotide-dimethylbenzimidazol phosphoribosyltransferase 906 878 ctx cooccurence:767 coexpression:426
Rv0256c PPE2 PPE family protein PPE2 915 765 ctx neighborhood:759 textmining:656
Rv2072c cobL precorrin-6Y C(5,15)-methyltransferase 885 754 coexpression:513 textmining:553
Rv2861c mapB methionine aminopeptidase 544 544 ctx neighborhood:544

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

  • Annotation from H37Rv (no MTBC0 1:1 anchor; H37Rv protein used): cobyric acid synthase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): AAA_26 PF13500.13 (E=9e-15), CbiA PF01656.30 (E=4e-24), GATase_3 PF07685.21 (E=2e-43)
  • (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 YP_177703.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — AAA_26 (PF13500.13), CbiA (PF01656.30), GATase_3 (PF07685.21)
  • 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 COG1492
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WP95 (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 — 48 functional partner(s); context anchor cobIJ
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv0255c|cobQ1
MSGLLVAGTTSDAGKSAVTAGLCRALARRGVRVAPFKAQNMSNNSMVCRGPDGTGVEIGRAQWVQALAARTTPEAAMNPVLLKPASDHRSHVVLMGKPWGEVASSSWCAGRRALAEAACRAFDALAARYDVVVAEGAGSPAEINLRAGDYVNMGLARHAGLPTIVVGDIDRGGVFAAFLGTVALLAAEDQALVAGFVVNKFRGDSDLLAPGLRDLERVTGRRVYGTLPWHPDLWLDSEDALDLQGRRAAGTGARRVAVVRLPRISNFTDVDALGLEPDLDVVFASDPRALDDADLIVLPGTRATIADLAWLRARDLDRALLVHVAAGKPLLGICGGFQMLGRVIRDPYGIEGPGGQVTEVEGLGLLDVETAFSPHKVLRLPRGEGLGVPASGYEIHHGRITRGDTAEEFLGGARDGPVFGTMWHGSLEGDALREAFLRETLGLAPSGSCFLAARERRLDLLGDLVERHLDVDALLNLARHGCPPTLPFLAPGAP