hemD Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0511 · MTBC0 - · 565 aa · 602819–604516 (+) · RefSeq YP_177733.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)uroporphyrin-III C-methyltransferase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Uroporphyrin-III C-methyltransferase. Pfam: TP_methylase (PF00590.26), HEM4 (PF02602.21).

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 Q6MX34 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameProbable uroporphyrin-III C-methyltransferase HemD

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category H Coenzyme transport and metabolism
Preferred namehemD
eggNOG descriptionUroporphyrinogen-III synthase
Orthologous groupCOG0007
EC number EC 2.1.1.107, EC 4.2.1.75
KEGG orthology K01719, K13542
KEGG pathways map00860, map01100, map01110, map01120
KEGG modules M00121

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 0.75 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 4 synonymous, 8 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
TP_methylasePF00590.26 2.4e-3811–246 Tetrapyrrole (Corrin/Porphyrin) Methylases
HEM4PF02602.21 7.0e-64309–539 Uroporphyrinogen-III synthase HemD

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

Closest characterised functional partner: hemC (porphobilinogen deaminase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 1000 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0510 hemC porphobilinogen deaminase 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:833 fusion:598 cooccurence:724 coexpression:935 database:900 textmining:771
Rv0512 hemB delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase 997 991 ctx neighborhood:781 cooccurence:680 coexpression:868 textmining:765
Rv2847c cysG multifunctional uroporphyrin-III C-methyltransferase/precorrin-2 oxidase/ferrochelatase 995 989 ctx neighborhood:544 coexpression:690 database:900 textmining:625
Rv0509 hemA glutamyl-tRNA reductase 992 979 ctx neighborhood:829 cooccurence:736 coexpression:563 textmining:669
Rv2066 cobIJ bifunctional S-adenosyl-L-methionine-precorrin-2 methyl transferase/precorrin-3 methylase 987 964 ctx neighborhood:544 database:900 textmining:660
Rv0514 transmembrane protein 953 954 ctx neighborhood:773 coexpression:805
Rv0513 transmembrane protein 952 953 ctx neighborhood:773 coexpression:801
Rv0260c transcriptional regulator 952 933 database:900
Rv2678c hemE uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase 956 928 database:900 textmining:418
Rv0529 ccsA cytochrome C-type biogenesis protein CcsA 876 876 coexpression:822
Rv1286 cysC adenylyl-sulfate kinase 946 831 ctx neighborhood:544 coexpression:645 textmining:694
Rv0528 transmembrane protein 815 816 coexpression:733
Rv0508 hyp hypothetical protein 790 777 ctx neighborhood:773
Rv1324 thioredoxin 773 773 coexpression:761
Rv2391 sirA sulfite reductase 865 762 coexpression:642 textmining:456

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): uroporphyrin-III C-methyltransferase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): TP_methylase PF00590.26 (E=2e-38), HEM4 PF02602.21 (E=7e-64)
  • (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_177733.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — TP_methylase (PF00590.26), HEM4 (PF02602.21)
  • 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 COG0007
  • Curated reference: UniProt Q6MX34 (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)
  • Interaction network: STRING v12.0 (Szklarczyk et al. 2023, doi:10.1093/nar/gkac1000), taxon 83332, CC-BY 4.0 — 107 functional partner(s); context anchor hemC
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv0511|hemD
MTRGRKPRPGRIVFVGSGPGDPGLLTTRAAAVLANAALVFTDPDVPEPVVALIGTDLPPVSGPAPAEPVAGNGDAAGGGSAQEHGRAASAVVSGGPDIRPALGDPADVAKTLTAEARSGVDVVRLVAGDPLTVDAVISEVNAVARTHLHIEIVPGLAASSAVPTYAGLPLGSSHTVADVRIDPENTDWDALAAAPGPLILQATASHLAESARSLIDHQLAESTPCVVTAHGTTCQQRSVETTLQGLTDPAVLGATDPACSANGRDSQAGPLIVTIGKTVTSRAKLNWWESRALYGWTVLVPRTKDQAGEMSERLTSYGALPVEVPTIAVEPPRSPAQMERAVKGLVDGRFQWIVFTSTNAVRAVWEKFGEFGLDARAFSGVKIACVGESTADRVRAFGISPELVPSGEQSSLGLLDDFPPYDSVFDPVNRVLLPRADIATETLAEGLRERGWEIEDVTAYRTVRAAPPPATTREMIKTGGFDAVCFTSSSTVRNLVGIAGKPHARTIIACIGPKTAETAAEFGLRVDVQPDTAAIGPLVDALAEHAARLRAEGALPPPRKKSRRR