purA Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0357c · MTBC0 mtbc0_000377 · 432 aa · 438833–440131 (-) · RefSeq NP_214871.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)adenylosuccinate synthetase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationadenylosuccinate synthase
Revised (this work)Adenylosuccinate synthase. Pfam: Adenylsucc_synt (PF00709.28).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WHN3 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameAdenylosuccinate synthetase
EC (curated) EC 6.3.4.4
Curated functionPlays an important role in the de novo pathway of purine nucleotide biosynthesis. Catalyzes the first committed step in the biosynthesis of AMP from IMP.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category F Nucleotide transport and metabolism
Preferred namepurA
eggNOG descriptionPlays an important role in the de novo pathway of purine nucleotide biosynthesis. Catalyzes the first committed step in the biosynthesis of AMP from IMP
Orthologous groupCOG0104
EC number EC 6.3.4.4
KEGG orthology K01939
KEGG pathways map00230, map00250, map01100
KEGG modules M00049
Gene Ontology (69) GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0004019, GO:0005575, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0006139, GO:0006163, GO:0006164, GO:0006167, GO:0006725 +57 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 0.108 · strong purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 13 synonymous, 4 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
Adenylsucc_syntPF00709.28 3.7e-1805–422 Adenylosuccinate synthetase

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

Closest characterised functional partner: guaA (GMP synthase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 908 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0777 purB adenylosuccinate lyase PurB 998 989 coexpression:834 database:900 textmining:861
Rv3411c guaB2 inosine-5'-monophosphate dehydrogenase 993 974 coexpression:645 database:900 textmining:753
Rv1843c guaB1 inosine-5'-monophosphate dehydrogenase 981 973 coexpression:645 database:900
Rv0957 purH bifunctional phosphoribosylaminoimidazolecarboxamide formyltransferase/inosinemonophosphate cyclohydrolase 988 972 coexpression:671 database:900 textmining:618
Rv3410c guaB3 oxidoreductase 977 971 coexpression:646 database:900
Rv0356c hyp hypothetical protein 944 945 ctx neighborhood:801 coexpression:733
Rv1380 pyrB aspartate carbamoyltransferase 943 926 database:900
Rv1658 argG argininosuccinate synthase 940 922 database:900
Rv3624c hpt hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase 990 921 database:900 textmining:882
Rv2201 asnB asparagine synthetase 930 909 database:900
Rv3396c guaA GMP synthase 961 908 ctx cooccurence:606 coexpression:650 textmining:602
Rv1595 nadB L-aspartate oxidase 913 901 database:900
Rv1538c ansA L-aparaginase 900 901 database:900
Rv3709c ask aspartokinase 858 854 database:800
Rv3601c panD aspartate 1-decarboxylase 810 811 database:800

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: adenylosuccinate synthetase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: adenylosuccinate synthase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Adenylsucc_synt PF00709.28 (E=4e-180)
  • (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_214871.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Adenylsucc_synt (PF00709.28)
  • 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 COG0104
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WHN3 (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 — 136 functional partner(s); context anchor guaA
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_000377|Rv0357c|purA
MPAIVLIGAQWGDEGKGKATDLLGGRVQWVVRYQGGNNAGHTVVLPTGENFALHLIPSGVLTPGVTNVIGNGVVIDPGVLLNELRGLQDRGVDTAKLLISADAHLLMPYHIAIDKVTERYMGSKKIGTTGRGIGPCYQDKIARIGIRVADVLDPEQLTHKVEAACEFKNQVLVKIYNRKALDPAQVVDALLEQAEGFKHRIADTRLLLNAALEAGETVLLEGSQGTLLDVDHGTYPYVTSSNPTAGGAAVGSGIGPTRIGTVLGILKAYTTRVGSGPFPTELFDEHGEYLSKTGREFGVTTGRRRRCGWFDAVIARYAARVNGITDYFLTKLDVLSSLESVPVCVGYEIDGRRTRDMPMTQRDLCRAKPVYEELPGWWEDISGAREFDDLPAKARDYVLRLEQLAGAPVSCIGVGPGREQTIVRRDVLQDRP