Rv0459 Still unknown · low auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0459 · MTBC0 mtbc0_000483 · 163 aa · 554563–555054 (+) · RefSeq NP_214973.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)hypothetical protein
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationDUF779 domain-containing protein
Revised (this work)Conserved hypothetical protein; DUF domain(s) DUF779. Function unknown. Foldseek best (non-significant) hit: 1x0g-assembly1_C Crystal Structure of IscA with the [2Fe-2S] cluster (prob 0.93, TM 0.49).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt O53744 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameDUF779 domain-containing protein

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category S Function unknown
eggNOG descriptionProtein of unknown function (DUF779)
Orthologous groupCOG3564
KEGG orthology K09959

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 0.686 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 3 synonymous, 4 missense, 2 nonsense, 0 frameshift
Disruption 2 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.25% of strains (361) · clonal

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
DUF779PF05610.17 4.9e-4316–113 Protein of unknown function (DUF779)

Structural neighbours (Foldseek on the ESMFold model, exploratory)

ESMFold model confidence: mean pLDDT 89.8 (confident). A confident model makes the fold comparison meaningful.

Best matches against the PDB, ranked by Foldseek homology probability. A high probability / TM-score suggests a shared fold; unless flagged sig (E < 0.01) these are fold hypotheses, not assignments.

TargetProbTME-valueDescription
1x0g-assembly1_C 0.93 0.49 1.5e-02 1x0g-assembly1_C Crystal Structure of IscA with the [2Fe-2S] cluster
2apn-assembly1_A 0.87 0.39 3.9e-03 sig 2apn-assembly1_A hi1723 solution structure
1x0g-assembly1_A 0.82 0.48 3.2e-02 1x0g-assembly1_A Crystal Structure of IscA with the [2Fe-2S] cluster
7xq3-assembly1_D 0.02 0.36 4.6e+00 7xq3-assembly1_D Crystal structure of the tetramer of thioredoxin domain containing-protein of Oncomelania hupensis(OhTRP14)
5gan-assembly1_A 0.01 0.30 7.1e+00 5gan-assembly1_A The overall structure of the yeast spliceosomal U4/U6.U5 tri-snRNP at 3.7 Angstrom
5nyo-assembly1_A 0.01 0.26 7.1e+00 5nyo-assembly1_A Crystal structure of an atypical poplar thioredoxin-like2.1 variant in dimeric form
7jw2-assembly1_B 0.01 0.23 6.6e+00 7jw2-assembly1_B Crystal structure of Aedes aegypti Nibbler EXO domain
1yt3-assembly1_A 0.01 0.22 6.6e+00 1yt3-assembly1_A Crystal Structure of Escherichia coli RNase D, an exoribonuclease involved in structured RNA processing

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

Closest characterised functional partner: Rv0458 (aldehyde dehydrogenase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 995 excluding text-mining). This association is the citable seed of a function hypothesis for this hypothetical protein.

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0458 aldehyde dehydrogenase 994 995 ctx neighborhood:882 cooccurence:770 coexpression:827
Rv0460 hyp hypothetical protein 793 793 ctx neighborhood:792
Rv0457c peptidase 772 772 ctx neighborhood:772
Rv0461 transmembrane protein 750 751 ctx neighborhood:749
Rv0463 membrane protein 713 713 ctx neighborhood:711
Rv0462 lpdC dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase 712 712 ctx neighborhood:711
Rv0456c echA2 enoyl-CoA hydratase EchA2 650 650 ctx neighborhood:649
Rv0456B mazE1 antitoxin MazE1 426 426 ctx neighborhood:426
Rv0456A mazF1 toxin MazF1 426 426 ctx neighborhood:426

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: hypothetical protein
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: DUF779 domain-containing protein
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): DUF779 PF05610.17 (E=5e-43)
  • Foldseek best: 1x0g-assembly1_C Crystal Structure of IscA with the [2Fe-2S] cluster (prob 0.93, E=2e-02, TM=0.49)
  • (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_214973.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — DUF779 (PF05610.17)
  • 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 COG3564
  • Curated reference: UniProt O53744 (TrEMBL, unreviewed; 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)
  • Model confidence: ESMFold per-residue pLDDT (mean 89.8, confident)
  • Interaction network: STRING v12.0 (Szklarczyk et al. 2023, doi:10.1093/nar/gkac1000), taxon 83332, CC-BY 4.0 — 9 functional partner(s); context anchor Rv0458
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_000483|Rv0459|
MNAPAGVLITAEAAALLAGLQDRHGPVMFHQSGGCCDGSAPMCYPRADFLVGDRDILLGVLDVGEDGVPVWISGPQYQAWKHTQLIIDVVPGRGGGFSLEAPEGVRFLSRGRVFSDAEKAMREAAPVITGAAYECGERPLVRGLVVDLDDPDATPGVCRASRR