mapA Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0734 · MTBC0 - · 266 aa · 826670–827470 (+) · RefSeq YP_177748.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)methionine aminopeptidase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Methionine aminopeptidase. Pfam: Peptidase_M24 (PF00557.30).

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 P9WK21 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameMethionine aminopeptidase 1
EC (curated) EC 3.4.11.18
Curated functionRemoves the N-terminal methionine from nascent proteins. The N-terminal methionine is often cleaved when the second residue in the primary sequence is small and uncharged (Met-Ala-, Cys, Gly, Pro, Ser, Thr, or Val). Requires deformylation of the N(alpha)-formylated initiator methionine before it can be hydrolyzed.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category E Amino acid transport and metabolism
Preferred namemapA
eggNOG descriptionMethionine aminopeptidase
Orthologous groupCOG0024
EC number EC 3.4.11.18
KEGG orthology K01265
Gene Ontology (57) GO:0000096, GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0004177, GO:0005488, GO:0005506, GO:0005575, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0006082, GO:0006464, GO:0006508 +45 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 0.15 · strong purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 5 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
Peptidase_M24PF00557.30 5.5e-4023–257 Metallopeptidase family M24

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

Closest characterised functional partner: adk (adenylate kinase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 984 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0733 adk adenylate kinase 985 984 ctx neighborhood:882 cooccurence:434 coexpression:750
Rv0720 rplR 50S ribosomal protein L18 983 983 coexpression:831 experimental:816
Rv0701 rplC 50S ribosomal protein L3 978 977 ctx cooccurence:585 coexpression:707 experimental:808
Rv0732 secY preprotein translocase SecY 980 974 ctx neighborhood:881 coexpression:696
Rv0719 rplF 50S ribosomal protein L6 971 970 coexpression:740 experimental:793
Rv0716 rplE 50S ribosomal protein L5 969 968 ctx cooccurence:480 coexpression:680 experimental:803
Rv0715 rplX 50S ribosomal protein L24 967 968 coexpression:727 experimental:807
Rv0704 rplB 50S ribosomal protein L2 968 966 ctx cooccurence:401 coexpression:716 experimental:800
Rv0714 rplN 50S ribosomal protein L14 964 964 coexpression:734 experimental:801
Rv0702 rplD 50S ribosomal protein L4 963 962 coexpression:714 experimental:794
Rv0708 rplP 50S ribosomal protein L16 961 960 coexpression:736 experimental:794
Rv0721 rpsE 30S ribosomal protein S5 958 959 ctx cooccurence:407 coexpression:735 experimental:701
Rv0706 rplV 50S ribosomal protein L22 959 957 coexpression:726 experimental:793
Rv0722 rpmD 50S ribosomal protein L30 960 956 coexpression:737 experimental:802
Rv0709 rpmC 50S ribosomal protein L29 955 953 coexpression:730 experimental:813

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): methionine aminopeptidase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Peptidase_M24 PF00557.30 (E=6e-40)
  • (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 YP_177748.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Peptidase_M24 (PF00557.30)
  • 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 COG0024
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WK21 (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 — 139 functional partner(s); context anchor adk
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv0734|mapA
MRPLARLRGRRVVPQRSAGELDAMAAAGAVVAAALRAIRAAAAPGTSSLSLDEIAESVIRESGATPSFLGYHGYPASICASINDRVVHGIPSTAEVLAPGDLVSIDCGAVLDGWHGDAAITFGVGALSDADEALSEATRESLQAGIAAMVVGNRLTDVAHAIETGTRAAELRYGRSFGIVAGYGGHGIGRQMHMDPFLPNEGAPGRGPLLAAGSVLAIEPMLTLGTTKTVVLDDKWTVTTADGSRAAHWEHTVAVTDDGPRILTLG