narU Family assigned · medium auto-curated
H37Rv Rv0267 · MTBC0 mtbc0_000283 ·
463 aa · 321713–323104 (+) ·
RefSeq NP_214781.1
Annotation: from legacy to revised
| Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser) | nitrite extrusion protein NarU |
|---|---|
| MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation | NarK family nitrate/nitrite MFS transporter |
| Revised (this work) | NarK family nitrate/nitrite MFS transporter. Pfam: MFS_1 (PF07690.22). |
Auto-curated: this verdict and function were generated by rules from PGAP + Pfam + Foldseek and have not been hand-reviewed.
Curated reference (UniProt)
| UniProt |
P95224
TrEMBL · unreviewed
· Inferred from homology
|
|---|---|
| UniProt name | Nitrate/nitrite transporter |
Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)
| COG category |
P Inorganic ion transport and metabolism
|
|---|---|
| Preferred name | narU |
| eggNOG description | Major Facilitator |
| Orthologous group | COG2223 |
| KEGG orthology |
K02575
|
| KEGG pathways |
map00910
|
| KEGG modules |
M00615
|
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) pseudogene candidate
| pN/pS | 0.197 · strong purifying |
|---|---|
| Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) | 7 synonymous, 4 missense, 0 nonsense, 1 frameshift |
| Disruption | 1 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 1.88% of strains (2727) · 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)
| Pfam | Accession | i-Evalue | Residues | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
MFS_1 | PF07690.22 | 1.2e-17 | 57–384 | Major Facilitator Superfamily |
Functional interaction network (STRING v12, guilt-by-association)
Closest characterised functional partner: narG (nitrate reductase subunit alpha), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 985 excluding text-mining).
| Partner | Product | Score | No text-mining | Channels (≥400) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Rv1161 narG |
nitrate reductase subunit alpha | 994 | 985 ctx | cooccurence:719 coexpression:460 database:900 textmining:672 |
Rv1162 narH |
nitrate reductase subunit beta | 991 | 985 ctx | cooccurence:721 coexpression:469 database:900 textmining:450 |
Rv1736c narX |
nitrate reductase-like protein NarX | 994 | 984 ctx | cooccurence:721 coexpression:450 database:900 textmining:653 |
Rv1164 narI |
nitrate reductase subunit gamma | 993 | 978 ctx | cooccurence:613 coexpression:434 database:900 textmining:710 |
Rv0252 nirB |
nitrite reductase large subunit NirB | 976 | 946 | database:900 textmining:586 |
Rv0253 nirD |
nitrite reductase small subunit NirD | 962 | 938 | database:900 textmining:425 |
Rv1737c narK2 |
nitrate/nitrite transporter | 948 | 924 ctx | fusion:899 |
Rv2781c |
oxidoreductase | 909 | 909 | database:900 |
Rv0021c hyp |
hypothetical protein | 908 | 908 | database:900 |
Rv1163 narJ |
nitrate reductase subunit delta | 944 | 795 ctx | cooccurence:601 coexpression:466 textmining:738 |
Rv0260c |
transcriptional regulator | 795 | 764 ctx | cooccurence:574 |
Rv0266c oplA |
5-oxoprolinase OplA | 532 | 532 ctx | neighborhood:531 |
Rv0265c |
iron ABC transporter substrate-binding lipoprotein | 513 | 513 ctx | neighborhood:506 |
Rv0259c hyp |
hypothetical protein | 487 | 487 | |
Rv0261c narK3 |
nitrate/nitrite transporter | 541 | 483 |
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: nitrite extrusion protein NarU
- MTBC0 PGAP product: NarK family nitrate/nitrite MFS transporter
- Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): MFS_1 PF07690.22 (E=1e-17)
- (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_214781.1)
- Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — MFS_1 (PF07690.22)
- 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
COG2223 - Curated reference: UniProt P95224 (TrEMBL, unreviewed; Inferred from homology)
- 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 —
22 functional partner(s); context anchor
narG - Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.
Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence
>mtbc0_000283|Rv0267|narU MALTTAPAIDYALPRQQDEGDHWIDDWRPEDPVFWETIGRPIARRNLIFSIFAEHVGFSVWMLWSIVVVQMTAAAPGHPAASGWALSASQALCLVAVPSGVGAFLRLPYTFAIPIFGGRNWTTVSAALLVIPCLLLAWAVSHPSLPFAVLVVIAATAGFGGGNFASSMANISFFYPEKDKGWALGLNAAGGNIGVAVVQKIIPPIVVAGSGVALSRAGLFFVPLAVAAAVCAFLFMNNLTEAKADVKPVWQSLRHADTWIMSLLYIGTFGSFIGYSAAFPTLLKTVFGRGDIALGWAFLGAGIGSLVRPLGGKLADRIGGARITAASFVMLAAGAAAALWSVQSVNLPVFFVSFMFLFVATGIGNGSSYRMISRIFQVKGEVAGGDPETMVNMRRQAAGALGIISSIGAFGGFVVPLAYAWSKVHFGNIEPALHFYVAFFLALLVVTWYCYLRRTTPMGQVGV