sppA Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0724 · MTBC0 - · 623 aa · 815663–817534 (+) · RefSeq NP_215238.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)protease IV SppA
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Protease IV SppA. Pfam: Peptidase_S49 (PF01343.24).

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 P95072 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt namePossible protease IV SppA

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category O Post-translational modification, protein turnover, chaperones
U Intracellular trafficking, secretion and vesicular transport
Preferred namesppA
eggNOG descriptionsignal peptide peptidase SppA, 67K type
Orthologous groupCOG0616
KEGG orthology K04773, K04774

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 0.296 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 10 synonymous, 8 missense, 0 nonsense, 1 frameshift
Disruption 1 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.17% of strains (252) · clonal

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
Peptidase_S49PF01343.24 1.1e-51403–554 Peptidase family S49

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

Closest characterised functional partner: rpsE (30S ribosomal protein S5), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 724 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0721 rpsE 30S ribosomal protein S5 724 724 ctx neighborhood:676
Rv0723 rplO 50S ribosomal protein L15 688 688 ctx neighborhood:685
Rv0722 rpmD 50S ribosomal protein L30 677 677 ctx neighborhood:675
Rv0719 rplF 50S ribosomal protein L6 630 630 ctx neighborhood:628
Rv0720 rplR 50S ribosomal protein L18 630 630 ctx neighborhood:628
Rv0718 rpsH 30S ribosomal protein S8 575 576 ctx neighborhood:573
Rv1227c transmembrane protein 452 453 coexpression:436
Rv1226c transmembrane protein 443 443 coexpression:429
Rv3278c transmembrane protein 436 437 coexpression:423
Rv0176 Mce associated transmembrane protein 624 202 textmining:549
Rv0233 nrdB ribonucleoside-diphosphate reductase subunit beta NrdB 574 158 textmining:515
Rv3869 eccB1 ESX-1 secretion system protein EccB 425 120
Rv2182c 1-acylglycerol-3-phosphate O-acyltransferase 416 113
Rv3328c sigJ ECF RNA polymerase sigma factor SigJ 450 88 textmining:423
Rv0251c hsp heat shock protein 464 86 textmining:438

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): protease IV SppA
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Peptidase_S49 PF01343.24 (E=1e-51)
  • (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_215238.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Peptidase_S49 (PF01343.24)
  • 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 COG0616
  • Curated reference: UniProt P95072 (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 — 30 functional partner(s); context anchor rpsE
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv0724|sppA
MPIFGGFCVCSRALGGRWVRWVNMVAFLPSIPVVEDLRALVGRVDTARHHGVPNGCVLEFNLRSVPPETTGFDPLTVLTGGGRPMALRDAVAAIHRAAEDPRVAGLIARVQLPPSPAGAVQELREAIAAFSAVKPSLAWAETYPGTLSYYLASAFGEVWMQPSGSVGLVGFATNATFLRDALHKAGIEAQFVARGEYKSAANLFTEDGFTDAHREAVTRMLDSLQDQVWQAVAKSRNIGVDALDELADRAPLLRDDAVTCGLIDRIGFRDQAYARMAELVGVEKGSPESSGSQTSPDEKPPRMYLARYASSARPRLTPPVPSIPGRRSKPTIAVVTLEGPIVNGRGGPQFLPLGPSSAGGDTIAAALREVAADDSVSAIVLRVDSPGGSVTASETIWREVARARDRGKPVVASMGAVAASGGYYVSMGADAIVANPGTITGSIGVITGKLVVRDLKDRLGVGSDAVRTNANADAWSIDAPFTPDQQAHREAEADLFYSDFVERVAEGRKMTTDAVDVVARGRVWTGADALDRGLVDELGGLRTAVRRAKVLAGLDEDTEVRIVSYPGSSLWDMVRPRPSSRPAAASLPDAMGALLARSIVGIVEQVEQTLSGASVLWLGESRL