ackA Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0409 · MTBC0 mtbc0_000429 · 385 aa · 497216–498373 (+) · RefSeq NP_214923.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)acetate kinase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationacetate kinase
Revised (this work)Acetate kinase. Pfam: Acetate_kinase (PF00871.24).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WQH1 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameAcetate kinase
EC (curated) EC 2.7.2.1
Curated functionCatalyzes the formation of acetyl phosphate from acetate and ATP. Can also catalyze the reverse reaction.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category F Nucleotide transport and metabolism
Preferred nameackA
eggNOG descriptionCatalyzes the formation of acetyl phosphate from acetate and ATP. Can also catalyze the reverse reaction
Orthologous groupCOG0282
EC number EC 2.7.2.1
KEGG orthology K00925
KEGG pathways map00430, map00620, map00640, map00680, map00720, map01100, map01120, map01200
KEGG modules M00357, M00579
Gene Ontology (6) GO:0005575, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0044424, GO:0044464

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 0.286 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 5 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
Acetate_kinasePF00871.24 4.1e-1315–374 Acetokinase family

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

Closest characterised functional partner: pta (phosphate acetyltransferase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 1000 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0408 pta phosphate acetyltransferase 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:882 cooccurence:769 coexpression:999 database:900 textmining:948
Rv3667 acs acetyl-CoAsynthetase 971 932 database:900 textmining:594
Rv3293 pcd piperideine-6-carboxylic acid dehydrogenase 929 925 database:900
Rv0768 aldA aldehyde dehydrogenase AldA 930 922 database:900
Rv0458 aldehyde dehydrogenase 926 922 database:900
Rv0223c aldehyde dehydrogenase 926 922 database:900
Rv0147 aldehyde dehydrogenase 926 922 database:900
Rv0467 icl1 isocitrate lyase 962 906 coexpression:906 textmining:615
Rv2922A acyP acylphosphatase 912 900 database:900
Rv0407 fgd1 F420-dependent glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase 889 889 ctx neighborhood:882
Rv1837c glcB malate synthase 890 791 coexpression:791 textmining:500
Rv0406c beta lactamase-like protein 786 786 ctx neighborhood:784
Rv2524c fas fatty acid synthase 736 634 ctx neighborhood:470
Rv1916 aceAb isocitrate lyase AceAb 667 631 coexpression:631
Rv1915 aceAa isocitrate lyase AceAa 666 630 coexpression:630

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: acetate kinase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: acetate kinase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Acetate_kinase PF00871.24 (E=4e-131)
  • (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_214923.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Acetate_kinase (PF00871.24)
  • 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 COG0282
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WQH1 (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 — 65 functional partner(s); context anchor pta
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_000429|Rv0409|ackA
MSSTVLVINSGSSSLKFQLVEPVAGMSRAAGIVERIGERSSPVADHAQALHRAFKMLAEDGIDLQTCGLVAVGHRVVHGGTEFHQPTLLDDTVIGKLEELSALAPLHNPPAVLGIKVARRLLANVAHVAVFDTAFFHDLPPAAATYAIDRDVADRWHIRRYGFHGTSHQYVSERAAAFLGRPLDGLNQIVLHLGNGASASAIARGRPVETSMGLTPLEGLVMGTRSGDLDPGVISYLWRTARMGVEDIESMLNHRSGMLGLAGERDFRRLRLVIETGDRSAQLAYEVFIHRLRKYLGAYLAVLGHTDVVSFTAGIGENDAAVRRDALAGLQGLGIALDQDRNLGPGHGARRISSDDSPIAVLVVPTNEELAIARDCLRVLGGRRA