grcC1 Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0562 · MTBC0 mtbc0_000591 · 335 aa · 656322–657329 (+) · RefSeq NP_215076.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)polyprenyl-diphosphate synthase GrcC
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationpolyprenyl-diphosphate synthase GrcC
Revised (this work)Polyprenyl-diphosphate synthase GrcC. Pfam: polyprenyl_synt (PF00348.23).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt O06428 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameNonaprenyl diphosphate synthase
EC (curated) EC 2.5.1.10, EC 2.5.1.29, EC 2.5.1.85
Curated functionCatalyzes the sequential condensations of isopentenyl pyrophosphate (IPP) with geranyl diphosphate (GPP) to yield (2E,6E)-farnesyl diphosphate (E,E-FPP), with E,E-FPP to yield geranylgeranyl diphosphate (GGPP) and with GGPP to yield nonaprenyl diphosphate. May also have weak activity with dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMAPP).

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category H Coenzyme transport and metabolism
Preferred namehepT
eggNOG descriptionBelongs to the FPP GGPP synthase family
Orthologous groupCOG0142
EC number EC 2.5.1.30
KEGG orthology K00805
KEGG pathways map00900, map01110

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 0.18 · strong purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 4 synonymous, 2 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
polyprenyl_syntPF00348.23 6.0e-6543–286 Polyprenyl synthetase

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

Closest characterised functional partner: menJ (oxidoreductase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 736 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3398c idsA1 multifunctional dimethylallyltransferase/geranyltranstransferase/farnesyltranstransferase 948 925 database:900
Rv3383c idsB polyprenyl synthetase IdsB 941 925 database:900
Rv2173 idsA2 geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthetase IdsA 946 924 database:900
Rv0989c grcC2 polyprenyl-diphosphate synthase GrcC 906 903 database:900
Rv3397c phyA phytoene synthase 903 864 database:800
Rv0561c menJ oxidoreductase 751 736 ctx neighborhood:620
Rv1086 (2Z,6E)-farnesyl diphosphate synthase 904 722 ctx cooccurence:695 textmining:672
Rv2361c uppS decaprenyl diphosphate synthase 936 673 ctx cooccurence:643 textmining:814
Rv0563 htpX protease HtpX 646 632 ctx neighborhood:581
Rv2445c ndkA nucleoside diphosphate kinase 577 555 coexpression:415
Rv0560c benzoquinone methyltransferase 556 540 ctx neighborhood:529
Rv2752c rnj ribonuclease J 533 534 coexpression:518
Rv0721 rpsE 30S ribosomal protein S5 528 528 coexpression:417
Rv0559c hyp hypothetical protein 520 520 ctx neighborhood:520
Rv1023 eno enolase 524 507

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: polyprenyl-diphosphate synthase GrcC
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: polyprenyl-diphosphate synthase GrcC
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): polyprenyl_synt PF00348.23 (E=6e-65)
  • (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_215076.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — polyprenyl_synt (PF00348.23)
  • 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 COG0142
  • Curated reference: UniProt O06428 (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 — 43 functional partner(s); context anchor menJ
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_000591|Rv0562|grcC1
MRTPATVVAGVDLGDAVFAAAVRAGVARVEQLMDTELRQADEVMSDSLLHLFNAGGKRFRPLFTVLSAQIGPQPDAAAVTVAGAVIEMIHLATLYHDDVMDEAQVRRGAPSANAQWGNNVAILAGDYLLATASRLVARLGPEAVRIIADTFAQLVTGQMRETRGTSENVDSIEQYLKVVQEKTGSLIGAAGRLGGMFSGATDEQVERLSRLGGVVGTAFQIADDIIDIDSESDESGKLPGTDVREGVHTLPMLYALRESGPDCARLRALLNGPVDDDAEVREALTLLRASPGMARAKDVLAQYAAQARHELALLPDVPGRRALAALVDYTVSRHG