eccC3 Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0284 · MTBC0 mtbc0_000303 · 1330 aa · 348929–352921 (+) · RefSeq NP_214798.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)ESX-3 secretion system protein EccC3
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationtype VII secretion system ESX-3 FtsK/SpoIIIE family ATPase EccC3
Revised (this work)Type VII secretion system ESX-3 FtsK/SpoIIIE family ATPase EccC3. Pfam: FtsK_SpoIIIE (PF01580.25).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WNA9 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameESX-3 secretion system protein EccC3
Curated functionPart of the ESX-3 specialized secretion system, which is important for iron and zinc uptake or homeostasis.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category D Cell cycle control, cell division, chromosome partitioning
Preferred nameeccCa
eggNOG descriptionCOG1674 DNA segregation ATPase FtsK SpoIIIE and related proteins
Orthologous groupCOG1672
KEGG orthology K03466
Gene Ontology (16) GO:0005575, GO:0005618, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0005887, GO:0008150, GO:0016020, GO:0016021, GO:0030312, GO:0031224, GO:0031226, GO:0040007 +4 more

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 0.632 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 9 synonymous, 16 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
FtsK_SpoIIIEPF01580.25 1.2e-58788–1037 FtsK/SpoIIIE family

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

Closest characterised functional partner: eccD3 (ESX-3 secretion system protein EccD), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 1000 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0290 eccD3 ESX-3 secretion system protein EccD 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:669 cooccurence:657 coexpression:732 experimental:997 textmining:957
Rv0283 eccB3 ESX-3 secretion system protein EccB3 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:881 cooccurence:759 coexpression:852 experimental:997 textmining:954
Rv0292 eccE3 ESX-3 secretion system protein EccE 999 986 ctx neighborhood:584 coexpression:757 experimental:870 textmining:958
Rv0282 eccA3 ESX-3 secretion system protein EccA 994 984 ctx neighborhood:881 coexpression:848 textmining:670
Rv0286 PPE4 PPE family protein PPE4 968 958 ctx neighborhood:801 coexpression:799
Rv0291 mycP3 membrane-anchored mycosin MycP 974 933 ctx neighborhood:581 coexpression:769 textmining:633
Rv1782 eccB5 ESX-5 type VII secretion system protein EccB5 950 927 ctx cooccurence:578 experimental:824
Rv0281 S-adenosylmethionine-dependent methyltransferase 916 917 ctx neighborhood:498 coexpression:797
Rv0285 PE5 PE family protein PE5 881 881 ctx neighborhood:881
Rv1795 eccD5 ESX-5 type VII secretion system protein EccD 922 865 experimental:821 textmining:453
Rv3448 eccD4 ESX-4 secretion system protein EccD4 887 843 ctx cooccurence:681 experimental:513
Rv0289 espG3 ESX-3 secretion-associated protein EspG3 916 842 ctx neighborhood:768 textmining:493
Rv0288 esxH ESAT-6-like protein EsxH 803 729 ctx neighborhood:588
Rv3445c esxU ESAT-6 like protein EsxU 731 696 experimental:677
Rv3874 esxB ESAT-6-like protein EsxB 799 691 experimental:677

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: ESX-3 secretion system protein EccC3
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: type VII secretion system ESX-3 FtsK/SpoIIIE family ATPase EccC3
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): FtsK_SpoIIIE PF01580.25 (E=1e-58)
  • (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_214798.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — FtsK_SpoIIIE (PF01580.25)
  • 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 COG1672
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WNA9 (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 — 51 functional partner(s); context anchor eccD3
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_000303|Rv0284|eccC3
MSRLIFEARRRLAPPSSHQGTIIIEAPPELPRVIPPSLLRRALPYLIGILIVGMIVALVATGMRVISPQTLFFPFVLLLAATALYRGNDKKMRTEEVDAERADYLRYLSVVRDNIRAQAAEQRASALWSHPDPTALASVPGSRRQWERDPHDPDFLVLRAGRHTVPLATTLRVNDTADEIDLEPVSHSALRSLLDTQRSIGDVPTGIDLTKVSRITVLGERAQVRAVLRAWIAQAVTWHDPTVLGVALAARDLEGRDWNWLKWLPHVDIPGRLDALGPARNLSTDPDELIALLGPVLADRPAFTGQPTDALRHLLIVVDDPDYDLGASPLAVGRAGVTVVHCSASAPHREQYSDPEKPILRVAHGAIERWQTGGWQPYIDAADQFSADEAAHLARRLSRWDSNPTHAGLRSAATRGASFTTLLGIEDASRLDVPALWAPRRRDEELRVPIGVTGTGEPLMFDLKDEAEGGMGPHGLMIGMTGSGKSQTLMSILLSLLTTHSAERLIVIYADFKGEAGADSFRDFPQVVAVISNMAEKKSLADRFADTLRGEVARREMLLREAGRKVQGSAFNSVLEYENAIAAGHSLPPIPTLFVVADEFTLMLADHPEYAELFDYVARKGRSFRIHILFASQTLDVGKIKDIDKNTAYRIGLKVASPSVSRQIIGVEDAYHIESGKEHKGVGFLVPAPGATPIRFRSTYVDGIYEPPQTAKAVVVQSVPEPKLFTAAAVEPDPGTVIADTDEQEPADPPRKLIATIGEQLARYGPRAPQLWLPPLDETIPLSAALARAGVGPRQWRWPLGEIDRPFEMRRDPLVFDARSSAGNMVIHGGPKSGKSTALQTFILSAASLHSPHEVSFYCLDYGGGQLRALQDLAHVGSVASALEPERIRRTFGELEQLLLSRQQREVFRDRGANGSTPDDGFGEVFLVIDNLYGFGRDNTDQFNTRNPLLARVTELVNVGLAYGIHVIITTPSWLEVPLAMRDGLGLRLELRLHDARDSNVRVVGALRRPADAVPHDQPGRGLTMAAEHFLFAAPELDAQTNPVAAINARYPGMAAPPVRLLPTNLAPHAVGELYRGPDQLVIGQREEDLAPVILDLAANPLLMVFGDARSGKTTLLRHIIRTVREHSTADRVAFTVLDRRLHLVDEPLFPDNEYTANIDRIIPAMLGLANLIEARRPPAGMSAAELSRWTFAGHTHYLIIDDVDQVPDSPAMTGPYIGQRPWTPLIGLLAQAGDLGLRVIVTGRATGSAHLLMTSPLLRRFNDLQATTLMLAGNPADSGKIRGERFARLPAGRAILLTDSDSPTYVQLINPLVDAAAVSGETQQKGSQS