mftF Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0696 · MTBC0 mtbc0_000737 · 470 aa · 799605–801017 (+) · RefSeq NP_215210.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)mycofactocin biosynthesis glycosyltransferase MftF
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationmycofactocin biosynthesis glycosyltransferase MftF
Revised (this work)Mycofactocin biosynthesis glycosyltransferase MftF. Pfam: Glyco_tranf_2_3 (PF13641.13), Glycos_transf_2 (PF00535.33), Glyco_tranf_2_2 (PF10111.15), Glyco_trans_2_3 (PF13632.13).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WMX1 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt namePre-mycofactocin glycosyltransferase
EC (curated) EC 2.4.1.-
Curated functionInvolved in the biosynthesis of the enzyme cofactor mycofactocin (MFT). Acts as a glycosyltransferase that catalyzes the oligoglycosylation of pre-mycofactocin (PMFT), adding up to nine beta-1,4-linked glucose residues.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category M Cell wall / membrane / envelope biogenesis
eggNOG descriptionglycosyl transferase, family 2
Orthologous groupCOG1216
Gene Ontology (8) GO:0005575, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0005829, GO:0044424, GO:0044444, GO:0044464

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 0.469 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 4 synonymous, 5 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
Glyco_tranf_2_3PF13641.13 4.9e-1082–290 Glycosyltransferase like family 2
Glycos_transf_2PF00535.33 8.8e-2685–241 Glycosyl transferase family 2
Glyco_tranf_2_2PF10111.15 7.0e-1386–297 Glycosyltransferase like family 2
Glyco_trans_2_3PF13632.13 1.4e-12159–331 Glycosyl transferase family group 2

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

Closest characterised functional partner: mftE (mycofactocin system creatinine amidohydrolase family protein MftE), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 991 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0695 mftE mycofactocin system creatinine amidohydrolase family protein MftE 999 991 ctx neighborhood:813 cooccurence:695 coexpression:860 textmining:929
Rv0697 mftG dehydrogenase 968 967 ctx neighborhood:881 coexpression:731
Rv0693 mftC mycofactocin radical SAM maturase MftC 993 932 ctx neighborhood:702 cooccurence:770 textmining:907
Rv0692 mftB mycofactocin system protein MftB 994 931 ctx neighborhood:702 cooccurence:769 textmining:929
Rv0694 mftD mycofactocin system heme/flavin oxidoreductase MftD 986 856 ctx neighborhood:702 cooccurence:493 textmining:907
Rv0691c mftR mycofactocin biosynthesis transcriptional regulator MftR 846 808 ctx cooccurence:714
Rv3529c hyp hypothetical protein 824 805 experimental:788
Rv1691 hyp hypothetical protein 823 805 experimental:788
Rv2267c stf3 hyp hypothetical protein 823 805 experimental:788
Rv1096 glycosyl hydrolase 815 759 coexpression:739
Rv1639c hyp hypothetical protein 760 752 coexpression:746
Rv1354c hyp hypothetical protein 887 720 ctx neighborhood:544 coexpression:411 textmining:614
Rv1364c sigma factor regulatory protein 787 719 ctx neighborhood:544 coexpression:409
Rv0690c hyp hypothetical protein 638 638 ctx neighborhood:630
Rv1990A Rv1990A, len: 111 aa. Possible dehydrogenase (fragment), similar to N-terminal part of several dehydrogenases and hypothetical proteins, e.g 649 634 ctx cooccurence:590

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: mycofactocin biosynthesis glycosyltransferase MftF
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: mycofactocin biosynthesis glycosyltransferase MftF
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Glyco_tranf_2_3 PF13641.13 (E=5e-10), Glycos_transf_2 PF00535.33 (E=9e-26), Glyco_tranf_2_2 PF10111.15 (E=7e-13), Glyco_trans_2_3 PF13632.13 (E=1e-12)
  • (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_215210.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Glyco_tranf_2_3 (PF13641.13), Glycos_transf_2 (PF00535.33), Glyco_tranf_2_2 (PF10111.15), Glyco_trans_2_3 (PF13632.13)
  • 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 COG1216
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WMX1 (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 — 45 functional partner(s); context anchor mftE
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_000737|Rv0696|mftF
MTATRLPDGFAVQVDRRVRVLGDGSALLGGSPTRLLRLAPAARGLLCDGRLKVRDEVSAELARILLDATVAHPRPPSGPSHRDVTVVIPVRNNASGLRRLVTSLRGLRVIVVDDGSACPVESDDFVGAHCDIEVLHHPHSKGPAAARNTGLAACTTDFVAFLDSDVTPRRGWLESLLGHFCDPTVALVAPRIVSLVEGENPVARYEALHSSLDLGQREAPVLPHSTVSYVPSAAIVCRSSAIRDVGGFDETMHSGEDVDLCWRLIEAGARLRYEPIALVAHDHRTQLRDWIARKAFYGGSAAPLAVRHPDKTAPLVISGGALMAWILMSIGTGLGRLASLVIAVLTGRRIARAMRCAETSFLDVLAVATRGLWAAALQLASAICRHYWPLALLAAILSRRCRRVVLIAAVVDGVVDWLRRREGADDDAEPIGPLTYLVLKRVDDLAYGAGLWYGVVRERNIGALKPQIRT