Rv0431 Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0431 · MTBC0 - · 164 aa · 519073–519567 (+) · RefSeq NP_214945.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)tuberculin-like peptide
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Tuberculin-like peptide. Pfam: LytR_C (PF13399.12).

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

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 P96277 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameVesiculogenesis and immune response regulator
Curated functionVirulence factor that regulates vesiculogenesis. Acts by regulating the production of mycobacterial membrane vesicles (MV) bearing Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) ligands, including the lipoproteins LpqH, a major host TLR2 agonist, and SodC. By restraining the release of most of the material that activates host cells through TLR2, VirR reduces the immunostimulant potential of M.tuberculosis and increases its virulence. May contribute to cell envelope integrity..; FUNCTION: When overexpressed in M.smegmatis, it modulates the production of IL-10, IL-12 p40 and TNF by RAW264.7 macrophages and it decr.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category S Function unknown
eggNOG descriptionLytR cell envelope-related transcriptional attenuator
Orthologous group2DP6P

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 1.211 · diversifying/relaxed
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
LytR_CPF13399.12 4.4e-1477–162 LytR cell envelope-related transcriptional attenuator

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

Closest characterised functional partner: Rv0433 (carboxylate-amine ligase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 835 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0430 hyp hypothetical protein 856 856 ctx neighborhood:835
Rv0433 carboxylate-amine ligase 835 835 ctx neighborhood:833
Rv0432 sodC superoxide dismutase 835 835 ctx neighborhood:833
Rv0434 hyp hypothetical protein 760 760 ctx neighborhood:758
Rv2732c transmembrane protein 760 760 ctx cooccurence:757
Rv2138 lppL lipoprotein LppL 759 759 ctx cooccurence:758
Rv1109c hyp hypothetical protein 751 752 ctx cooccurence:749
Rv1632c hyp hypothetical protein 750 751 ctx cooccurence:739
Rv3212 hyp hypothetical protein 747 748 ctx cooccurence:745
Rv0556 transmembrane protein 744 745 ctx cooccurence:741
Rv0996 transmembrane protein 740 740 ctx cooccurence:732
Rv0250c hyp hypothetical protein 737 738 ctx cooccurence:736
Rv0882 transmembrane protein 733 733 ctx cooccurence:732
Rv2743c hyp hypothetical protein 728 728 ctx cooccurence:725
Rv1486c hyp hypothetical protein 711 712 ctx cooccurence:711

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

  • Annotation from H37Rv (no MTBC0 1:1 anchor; H37Rv protein used): tuberculin-like peptide
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): LytR_C PF13399.12 (E=4e-14)
  • (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_214945.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — LytR_C (PF13399.12)
  • 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 2DP6P
  • Curated reference: UniProt P96277 (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 — 121 functional partner(s); context anchor Rv0433
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv0431|
MLVTVGSMNERVPDSSGLPLRAMVMVLLFLGVVFLLLVWQALGSSPNSEDDSSAISTMTTTTAAPTSTSVKPAAPRAEVRVYNISGTEGAAARTADRLKAAGFTVTDVGNLSLPDVAATTVYYTEVEGERATADAVGRTLGAAVELRLPELSDQPPGVIVVVTG