icl1 Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0467 · MTBC0 - · 428 aa · 557527–558813 (+) · RefSeq YP_177728.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)isocitrate lyase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Isocitrate lyase. Pfam: ICL (PF00463.28), PEP_mutase (PF13714.13).

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 P9WKK7 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameIsocitrate lyase
EC (curated) EC 4.1.3.1
Curated functionInvolved in the persistence and virulence of M.tuberculosis. Catalyzes the reversible formation of succinate and glyoxylate from isocitrate, a key step of the glyoxylate cycle, which operates as an anaplerotic route for replenishing the tricarboxylic acid cycle during growth on fatty acid substrates. It could also catalyze the formation of pyruvate and succinate from 2-methylisocitrate, a key step in the methylcitrate cycle (propionate degradation route) (By similarity).

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category C Energy production and conversion
Preferred nameaceA
eggNOG descriptionIsocitrate lyase
Orthologous groupCOG2224
EC number EC 4.1.3.1
KEGG orthology K01637
KEGG pathways map00630, map01100, map01110, map01120, map01200
KEGG modules M00012
Gene Ontology (78) GO:0001101, GO:0001666, GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0004451, GO:0005488, GO:0005515, GO:0005575, GO:0005576, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737 +66 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 0.188 · strong purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 5 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
ICLPF00463.28 1.5e-5212–251 Isocitrate lyase family
PEP_mutasePF13714.13 1.1e-1472–302 Phosphoenolpyruvate phosphomutase

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

Closest characterised functional partner: fadB2 (3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 952 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1837c glcB malate synthase 999 992 coexpression:923 database:900 textmining:956
Rv0468 fadB2 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase 954 952 ctx neighborhood:783 coexpression:788
Rv1916 aceAb isocitrate lyase AceAb 931 928 database:900
Rv1915 aceAa isocitrate lyase AceAa 925 923 database:900
Rv1475c acn iron-regulated aconitate hydratase 919 908 database:900
Rv0409 ackA acetate kinase 962 906 coexpression:906 textmining:615
Rv1257c oxidoreductase 904 901 database:900
Rv2280 Rv2280, (MTCY339.30c), len: 459 aa. Probable dehydrogenase. Similar to D-lactate dehydrogenase (cytochrome) precursor e.g. G1061264 (587 aa) 903 900 database:900
Rv1905c aao D-amino acid oxidase 807 800 database:800
Rv0465c ramB HTH-type transcriptional regulator 835 590 ctx neighborhood:403 textmining:616
Rv0408 pta phosphate acetyltransferase 689 560 coexpression:560
Rv3853 rraA RNase E regulator RraA 540 524
Rv1862 adhA alcohol dehydrogenase A 452 444 coexpression:444
Rv0466 hyp hypothetical protein 436 436 ctx neighborhood:434
Rv3667 acs acetyl-CoAsynthetase 577 411 coexpression:409

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): isocitrate lyase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): ICL PF00463.28 (E=2e-52), PEP_mutase PF13714.13 (E=1e-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 YP_177728.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — ICL (PF00463.28), PEP_mutase (PF13714.13)
  • 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 COG2224
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WKK7 (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 — 42 functional partner(s); context anchor fadB2
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv0467|icl1
MSVVGTPKSAEQIQQEWDTNPRWKDVTRTYSAEDVVALQGSVVEEHTLARRGAEVLWEQLHDLEWVNALGALTGNMAVQQVRAGLKAIYLSGWQVAGDANLSGHTYPDQSLYPANSVPQVVRRINNALQRADQIAKIEGDTSVENWLAPIVADGEAGFGGALNVYELQKALIAAGVAGSHWEDQLASEKKCGHLGGKVLIPTQQHIRTLTSARLAADVADVPTVVIARTDAEAATLITSDVDERDQPFITGERTREGFYRTKNGIEPCIARAKAYAPFADLIWMETGTPDLEAARQFSEAVKAEYPDQMLAYNCSPSFNWKKHLDDATIAKFQKELAAMGFKFQFITLAGFHALNYSMFDLAYGYAQNQMSAYVELQEREFAAEERGYTATKHQREVGAGYFDRIATTVDPNSSTTALTGSTEEGQFH