bluB Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0306 · MTBC0 mtbc0_000326 · 223 aa · 379237–379908 (+) · RefSeq NP_214820.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)oxidoreductase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation5%2C6-dimethylbenzimidazole synthase
Revised (this work)5%2C6-dimethylbenzimidazole synthase. Pfam: Nitroreductase (PF00881.30).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt O07233 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Predicted
UniProt nameOxidoreductase

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category C Energy production and conversion
Preferred namebluB
eggNOG descriptionCob(II)yrinic acid a,c-diamide reductase
Orthologous groupCOG0778
EC number EC 1.13.11.79
KEGG orthology K04719
KEGG pathways map00740, map01100

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 1.075 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 1 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
NitroreductasePF00881.30 2.0e-2614–178 Nitroreductase family

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

Closest characterised functional partner: cobT (nicotinate-nucleotide-dimethylbenzimidazol phosphoribosyltransferase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 989 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2207 cobT nicotinate-nucleotide-dimethylbenzimidazol phosphoribosyltransferase 989 989 ctx fusion:900 cooccurence:447 database:800
Rv2848c cobB cobyrinic acid A,C-diamide synthase 782 769 ctx fusion:671
Rv0296c sulfatase 554 554 ctx neighborhood:544
Rv0307c hyp hypothetical protein 554 554 ctx neighborhood:544
Rv0295c stf0 hyp hypothetical protein 545 545 ctx neighborhood:544
Rv2849c cobO cob(I)alamin adenosyltransferase 542 514 ctx cooccurence:498
Rv0305c PPE6 PPE family protein PPE6 498 498 ctx neighborhood:495
Rv1375 hyp hypothetical protein 520 490 coexpression:473
Rv1747 ABC transporter ATP-binding protein/permease 510 482 coexpression:438
Rv1686c ABC transporter permease 459 439 coexpression:422
Rv2938 drrC daunorubicin ABC transporter permease DrrC 456 437 coexpression:419
Rv1457c antibiotic ABC transporter permease 456 437 coexpression:419
Rv2937 drrB daunorubicin ABC transporter permease DrrB 456 437 coexpression:419
Rv0255c cobQ1 cobyric acid synthase 468 435
Rv2641 cadI cadmium inducible protein CadI 440 428 coexpression:418

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: oxidoreductase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: 5%2C6-dimethylbenzimidazole synthase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Nitroreductase PF00881.30 (E=2e-26)
  • (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_214820.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Nitroreductase (PF00881.30)
  • 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 COG0778
  • Curated reference: UniProt O07233 (TrEMBL, unreviewed; Predicted)
  • 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 — 32 functional partner(s); context anchor cobT
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_000326|Rv0306|bluB
MFSAPERRAVYRVIAERRDMRRFVPGGVVSEDVLARLLHAAHAAPSVGLMQPWRFIRITDETLKRRIHALVDDERLLTAEALGAREEEFLALKVEGILDCAELLVVALCDRRGSYIFGRRTLPQMDLASVSCAIQNLWLAARSEGLGMGWVSLFDPQRLAALLAMPADAEPVAILCLGPVPEFPDRPALELDGWAYARPLAEFVSENRWSYPSALATDHHHGE