fabH Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0533c · MTBC0 mtbc0_000562 · 335 aa · 628024–629031 (-) · RefSeq NP_215047.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)3-oxoacyl-ACP synthase III
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationbeta-ketoacyl-ACP synthase III
Revised (this work)Beta-ketoacyl-ACP synthase III. Pfam: Thiolase_N (PF00108.30), ACP_syn_III (PF08545.17), ACP_syn_III_C (PF08541.17).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WNG3 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameMycobacterial beta-ketoacyl-[acyl-carrier-protein] synthase III
EC (curated) EC 2.3.1.301
Curated functionCatalyzes the condensation reaction of fatty acid synthesis by the addition to an acyl acceptor of two carbons from malonyl-ACP. Catalyzes the first condensation reaction which initiates fatty acid synthesis and may therefore play a role in governing the total rate of fatty acid production. Possesses both acetoacetyl-ACP synthase and acetyl transacylase activities. Possesses a clear preference for long-chain acyl-CoA substrates rather than acyl-ACP primers. Its substrate specificity determines the biosynthesis of mycolic acid fatty acid chain, which is characteristic of mycobacterial cell wall.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category I Lipid transport and metabolism
Preferred namefabH
eggNOG descriptionCatalyzes the condensation reaction of fatty acid synthesis by the addition to an acyl acceptor of two carbons from malonyl-ACP. Catalyzes the first condensation reaction which initiates fatty acid synthesis and may therefore play a role in governing the total rate of fatty acid production. Possesses both acetoacetyl-ACP synthase and acetyl transacylase activities. Its substrate specificity determines the biosynthesis of branched- chain and or straight-chain of fatty acids
Orthologous groupCOG0332
EC number EC 2.3.1.180
KEGG orthology K00648, K11608
KEGG pathways map00061, map01100, map01212
KEGG modules M00082, M00083
Gene Ontology (83) GO:0000062, GO:0000166, GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0004312, GO:0004315, GO:0005488, GO:0006082, GO:0006139, GO:0006163, GO:0006629, GO:0006631 +71 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 1.037 · relaxed/neutral
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
Thiolase_NPF00108.30 4.5e-0646–154 Thiolase, N-terminal domain
ACP_syn_IIIPF08545.17 8.4e-23116–193 3-Oxoacyl-[acyl-carrier-protein (ACP)] synthase III
ACP_syn_III_CPF08541.17 1.6e-30242–332 3-Oxoacyl-[acyl-carrier-protein (ACP)] synthase III C terminal

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

Closest characterised functional partner: fas (fatty acid synthase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 986 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2524c fas fatty acid synthase 996 986 ctx neighborhood:447 coexpression:975 textmining:739
Rv0904c accD3 acetyl-CoAcarboxylase carboxyl transferase subunit beta 993 984 coexpression:969 textmining:587
Rv2243 fabD malonyl CoA-acyl carrier protein transacylase 994 940 ctx cooccurence:748 coexpression:733 textmining:915
Rv2245 kasA 3-oxoacyl-ACP synthase 1 988 922 ctx cooccurence:750 coexpression:678 textmining:860
Rv2246 kasB 3-oxoacyl-ACP synthase 2 988 920 ctx cooccurence:745 coexpression:678 textmining:860
Rv1484 inhA NADH-dependent enoyl-[ACP 976 852 ctx cooccurence:549 coexpression:646 textmining:850
Rv0534c menA 1,4-dihydroxy-2-naphthoate octaprenyltransferase 790 790 ctx neighborhood:785
Rv0716 rplE 50S ribosomal protein L5 713 714 coexpression:714
Rv3285 accA3 bifunctional protein acetyl-/propionyl-CoA carboxylase subunit alpha AccA 760 678 ctx cooccurence:484
Rv0701 rplC 50S ribosomal protein L3 674 675 coexpression:674
Rv2501c accA1 acetyl/propionyl-CoA carboxylase subuit alpha 677 642 ctx cooccurence:430
Rv1483 fabG1 3-oxoacyl-ACP reductase FabG 872 637 ctx cooccurence:570 textmining:665
Rv3462c infA translation initiation factor IF-1 606 606 coexpression:530
Rv2244 acpM meromycolate extension acyl carrier protein 871 600 textmining:693
Rv1415 ribA2 bifunctional riboflavin biosynthesis GTP cyclohydrolase II/3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone 4-phosphate synthase 596 596 coexpression:412

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: 3-oxoacyl-ACP synthase III
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: beta-ketoacyl-ACP synthase III
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Thiolase_N PF00108.30 (E=5e-06), ACP_syn_III PF08545.17 (E=8e-23), ACP_syn_III_C PF08541.17 (E=2e-30)
  • (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_215047.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Thiolase_N (PF00108.30), ACP_syn_III (PF08545.17), ACP_syn_III_C (PF08541.17)
  • 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 COG0332
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WNG3 (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 — 83 functional partner(s); context anchor fas
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_000562|Rv0533c|fabH
MTEIATTSGARSVGLLSVGAYRPERVVTNDEICQHIDSSDEWIYTRTGIKTRRFAADDESAASMATEACRRALSNAGLSAADIDGVIVTTNTHFLQTPPAAPMVAASLGAKGILGFDLSAGCAGFGYALGAAADMIRGGGAATMLVVGTEKLSPTIDMYDRGNCFIFADGAAAVVVGETPFQGIGPTVAGSDGEQADAIRQDIDWITFAQNPSGPRPFVRLEGPAVFRWAAFKMGDVGRRAMDAAGVRPDQIDVFVPHQANSRINELLVKNLQLRPDAVVANDIEHTGNTSAASIPLAMAELLTTGAAKPGDLALLIGYGAGLSYAAQVVRMPKG