rplB Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0704 · MTBC0 mtbc0_000746 · 280 aa · 806721–807563 (+) · RefSeq NP_215218.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)50S ribosomal protein L2
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation50S ribosomal protein L2
Revised (this work)50S ribosomal protein L2. Pfam: Ribosomal_L2_N (PF00181.31), Ribosomal_L2_C (PF03947.25).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WHA5 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameLarge ribosomal subunit protein uL2
Curated functionOne of the primary rRNA binding proteins. Required for association of the 30S and 50S subunits to form the 70S ribosome, for tRNA binding and peptide bond formation. It has been suggested to have peptidyltransferase activity; this is somewhat controversial. Makes several contacts with the 16S rRNA in the 70S ribosome.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category J Translation, ribosomal structure and biogenesis
Preferred namerplB
eggNOG descriptionOne of the primary rRNA binding proteins. Required for association of the 30S and 50S subunits to form the 70S ribosome, for tRNA binding and peptide bond formation. It has been suggested to have peptidyltransferase activity
Orthologous groupCOG0090
KEGG orthology K02886
KEGG pathways map03010
KEGG modules M00178, M00179
Gene Ontology (61) GO:0002181, GO:0003674, GO:0003676, GO:0003723, GO:0003735, GO:0005198, GO:0005488, GO:0005575, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0005829 +49 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 0.169 · strong purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 2 synonymous, 1 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
Ribosomal_L2_NPF00181.31 1.2e-3730–119 Ribosomal Proteins L2, RNA binding N-terminal domain
Ribosomal_L2_CPF03947.25 4.6e-55126–251 Ribosomal Proteins L2, C-terminal domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: rplE (50S ribosomal protein L5), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 1000 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2785c rpsO 30S ribosomal protein S15 999 1000 coexpression:833 experimental:999
Rv0716 rplE 50S ribosomal protein L5 999 1000 ctx cooccurence:748 coexpression:972 experimental:999 database:617 textmining:847
Rv3461c rpmJ 50S ribosomal protein L36 999 1000 coexpression:880 experimental:999
Rv0710 rpsQ 30S ribosomal protein S17 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:822 coexpression:963 experimental:999
Rv0715 rplX 50S ribosomal protein L24 999 1000 coexpression:968 experimental:999 database:570
Rv0721 rpsE 30S ribosomal protein S5 999 1000 ctx cooccurence:738 coexpression:971 experimental:999 textmining:596
Rv0709 rpmC 50S ribosomal protein L29 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:822 coexpression:970 experimental:999 database:617
Rv0714 rplN 50S ribosomal protein L14 999 1000 ctx cooccurence:740 coexpression:957 experimental:999 database:617 textmining:676
Rv1642 rpmI 50S ribosomal protein L35 999 1000 coexpression:882 experimental:999
Rv0701 rplC 50S ribosomal protein L3 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:776 cooccurence:734 coexpression:973 experimental:999 database:616 textmining:865
Rv2909c rpsP 30S ribosomal protein S16 999 1000 coexpression:864 experimental:999 textmining:571
Rv3460c rpsM 30S ribosomal protein S13 999 1000 ctx cooccurence:736 coexpression:843 experimental:999 textmining:585
Rv3458c rpsD 30S ribosomal protein S4 999 1000 coexpression:957 experimental:999 textmining:416
Rv0703 rplW 50S ribosomal protein L23 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:776 coexpression:995 experimental:999 database:571 textmining:845
Rv0683 rpsG 30S ribosomal protein S7 999 1000 ctx cooccurence:491 coexpression:878 experimental:999 textmining:858

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: 50S ribosomal protein L2
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: 50S ribosomal protein L2
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Ribosomal_L2_N PF00181.31 (E=1e-37), Ribosomal_L2_C PF03947.25 (E=5e-55)
  • (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_215218.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Ribosomal_L2_N (PF00181.31), Ribosomal_L2_C (PF03947.25)
  • 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 COG0090
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WHA5 (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 — 351 functional partner(s); context anchor rplE
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_000746|Rv0704|rplB
MAIRKYKPTTPGRRGASVSDFAEITRSTPEKSLVRPLHGRGGRNAHGRITTRHKGGGHKRAYRMIDFRRNDKDGVNAKVAHIEYDPNRTARIALLHYLDGEKRYIIAPNGLSQGDVVESGANADIKPGNNLPLRNIPAGTLIHAVELRPGGGAKLARSAGSSIQLLGKEASYASLRMPSGEIRRVDVRCRATVGEVGNAEQANINWGKAGRMRWKGKRPSVRGVVMNPVDHPHGGGEGKTSGGRHPVSPWGKPEGRTRNANKSSNKFIVRRRRTGKKHSR