Rv0393 Family assigned · low

H37Rv Rv0393 · MTBC0 - · 441 aa · 472781–474106 (+) · RefSeq NP_214907.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)hypothetical protein
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Member of the conserved 13E12 (REP13E12) repeat protein family. RefSeq leaves it of unknown function. Identified as a conserved component (P95201) of M. tuberculosis extracellular vesicles, proposed as an MEV marker (Ryan 2025). The REP13E12 repeats serve as prophage (phiRv1) attachment sites. Molecular function unfixed.

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 P95201 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Predicted
UniProt nameConserved 13E12 repeat family protein

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category V Defense mechanisms
eggNOG descriptionHNH endonuclease
Orthologous groupCOG1403

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 1.036 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 5 synonymous, 14 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
DUF222PF02720.23 9.1e-47100–281 Domain of unknown function (DUF222)

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

Closest characterised functional partner: ndhA (NADH dehydrogenase NdhA), medium confidence from genomic context alone (score 535 excluding text-mining). This association is the citable seed of a function hypothesis for this hypothetical protein.

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1765c hyp hypothetical protein 748 748 ctx cooccurence:745
Rv1587c hyp hypothetical protein 745 746 ctx cooccurence:742
Rv2015c hyp hypothetical protein 742 742 ctx cooccurence:740
Rv0094c hyp hypothetical protein 734 734 ctx cooccurence:726
Rv3467 hyp hypothetical protein 733 734 ctx cooccurence:726
Rv1148c hyp hypothetical protein 732 733 ctx cooccurence:730
Rv1945 hyp hypothetical protein 732 733 ctx cooccurence:731
Rv3354 hyp hypothetical protein 693 674 experimental:470
Rv2564 glnQ glutamine ABC transporter ATP-binding protein 663 631
Rv3103c hyp hypothetical protein 618 594 experimental:512
Rv0073 glutamine ABC transporter ATP-binding protein 617 581
Rv0986 adhesion component ABC transporter ATP-binding protein 598 578
Rv1156 hyp hypothetical protein 568 569 ctx cooccurence:564
Rv1073 hyp hypothetical protein 537 537 ctx cooccurence:535
Rv0392c ndhA NADH dehydrogenase NdhA 536 535 ctx neighborhood:535

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

  • Conserved 13E12 (REP13E12) repeat-family protein; MEV-associated marker (Ryan 2025, PMID 40256639)
  • Curated from the literature crible (project 'Still unknown gene function', 2026-06-09)

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_214907.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — DUF222 (PF02720.23)
  • 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 COG1403
  • Curated reference: UniProt P95201 (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 — 26 functional partner(s); context anchor ndhA
  • Primary literature: Ryan JM, Shelton K, Dzieciatkowska M, Kruh-Garcia N, Dobos KM (2025). Establishment of minimum protein standards for Mycobacterium tuberculosis-derived extracellular vesicles through comparison of EV enrichment methods Mycobacteria 1(1):3. doi:10.1186/s44350-025-00003-8 PMID:40256639

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv0393|
MAVGRCAIPRFDQAASGSAINGGQVHLSDGSTSPARQLPAPWPGDAGAAAEGRAGVCCRGNRLPHVSDVGVSHRFDHRPAGVGAGGCRAGAAGAGLAVDDPGQLAAAIDRIVAVADPDAVRQVRERARDREVSIWNSADGMGEVYAQLYATDAQALDARLNALVATVCAGDPRSTDQRRADALGALAAGADRLACRCDNPDCAAEGRPVSAVVIHVVAEQASVKGHGQAPAALLGGDGLIPAELVAELAKTAGLQPIPVPAGTEPGYRPSVKLAAFVRARDLTCRAPGCDRPATQCDLDHTIAFADGGATHAANLKCLCRLHHLLATFCGWRAQQLPDGTVIWTLPGNQTYVTTPGSALLFPALCTPTGDPPAPEPARADRRGQRTAMMPRRASTRTQNRAHCIAAERHRNHQARRIAQAAVIATETHGPPPDPDDDPPPF