murB Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0482 · MTBC0 mtbc0_000507 · 369 aa · 573904–575013 (+) · RefSeq NP_214996.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)UDP-N-acetylenolpyruvoylglucosamine reductase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationUDP-N-acetylmuramate dehydrogenase
Revised (this work)UDP-N-acetylmuramate dehydrogenase. Pfam: FAD_binding_4 (PF01565.29), MurB_C (PF02873.22).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WJL9 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameUDP-N-acetylenolpyruvoylglucosamine reductase
EC (curated) EC 1.3.1.98
Curated functionCell wall formation.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category M Cell wall / membrane / envelope biogenesis
Preferred namemurB
eggNOG descriptionCell wall formation
Orthologous groupCOG0812
EC number EC 1.3.1.98
KEGG orthology K00075
KEGG pathways map00520, map00550, map01100

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 2.644 · diversifying/relaxed
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 1 synonymous, 7 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
FAD_binding_4PF01565.29 1.4e-1535–166 FAD binding domain
MurB_CPF02873.22 2.6e-23230–365 UDP-N-acetylenolpyruvoylglucosamine reductase, C-terminal domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: lprQ (lipoprotein LprQ), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 801 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2152c murC UDP-N-acetylmuramate--alanine ligase 993 944 database:900 textmining:888
Rv1315 murA UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 1-carboxyvinyltransferase 996 908 database:900 textmining:959
Rv0483 lprQ lipoprotein LprQ 824 801 ctx neighborhood:800
Rv0481c hyp hypothetical protein 792 792 ctx neighborhood:790
Rv2153c murG UDP-N-acetylglucosamine--N-acetylmuramyl-(pentapeptide) pyrophosphoryl-undecaprenol-N-acetylglucosamine transferase 969 727 ctx cooccurence:512 textmining:892
Rv0480c amidohydrolase 695 695 ctx neighborhood:691
Rv0479c membrane protein 691 691 ctx neighborhood:690
Rv2364c era GTPase Era 596 596 ctx fusion:596
Rv2981c ddlA D-alanine--D-alanine ligase 872 595 coexpression:441 textmining:699
Rv2151c ftsQ cell division protein FtsQ 695 555 coexpression:493
Rv2973c recG ATP-dependent DNA helicase RecG 531 531 ctx cooccurence:430
Rv2157c murF UDP-N-acetylmuramoyl-tripeptide--D-alanyl-D-alanine ligase 936 506 textmining:877
Rv2155c murD UDP-N-acetylmuramoylalanine--D-glutamate ligase 954 440 textmining:922
Rv2158c murE UDP-N-acetylmuramoylalanyl-D-glutamate--2,6-diaminopimelate ligase 934 416 textmining:893
Rv0079 hyp hypothetical protein 410 411

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: UDP-N-acetylenolpyruvoylglucosamine reductase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: UDP-N-acetylmuramate dehydrogenase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): FAD_binding_4 PF01565.29 (E=1e-15), MurB_C PF02873.22 (E=3e-23)
  • (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_214996.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — FAD_binding_4 (PF01565.29), MurB_C (PF02873.22)
  • 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 COG0812
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WJL9 (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 — 53 functional partner(s); context anchor lprQ
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_000507|Rv0482|murB
MKRSGVGSLFAGAHIAEAVPLAPLTTLRVGPIARRVITCTSAEQVVAALRHLDSAAKTGADRPLVFAGGSNLVIAENLTDLTVVRLANSGITIDGNLVRAEAGAVFDDVVVRAIEQGLGGLECLSGIPGSAGATPVQNVGAYGAEVSDTITRVRLLDRCTGEVRWVSARDLRFGYRTSVLKHADGLAVPTVVLEVEFALDPSGRSAPLRYGELIAALNATSGERADPQAVREAVLALRARKGMVLDPTDHDTWSVGSFFTNPVVTQDVYERLAGDAATRKDGPVPHYPAPDGVKLAAGWLVERAGFGKGYPDAGAAPCRLSTKHALALTNRGGATAEDVVTLARAVRDGVHDVFGITLKPEPVLIGCML