vapB31 Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0748 · MTBC0 mtbc0_000295 · 23 aa · 333542–333799 (-) · RefSeq NP_215262.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)antitoxin VapB31
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationtype II toxin-antitoxin system antitoxin vapB25
Revised (this work)Ribbon-helix-helix protein%2C CopG family. Pfam: RHH_1 (PF01402.28).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt O53811 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameAntitoxin VapB31
Curated functionAntitoxin component of a type II toxin-antitoxin (TA) system. Upon expression in M.smegmatis neutralizes the effect of cognate toxin VapC31.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

Orthologous group2DDJC
Gene Ontology (6) GO:0008150, GO:0040008, GO:0045927, GO:0048518, GO:0050789, GO:0065007

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 0.294 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 4 synonymous, 2 missense, 1 nonsense, 0 frameshift
Disruption 1 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.14% of strains (202) · 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
RHH_1PF01402.28 5.4e-061–36 Ribbon-helix-helix protein, copG family

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

Closest characterised functional partner: vapC31 (ribonuclease VapC31), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 879 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0749 vapC31 ribonuclease VapC31 928 879 ctx neighborhood:753 experimental:508 textmining:434
Rv0277c vapC25 ribonuclease VapC25 798 573 experimental:508 textmining:547
Rv0747 PE_PGRS10 PE-PGRS family protein PE_PGRS10 538 538 ctx neighborhood:538
Rv3697c vapC48 ribonuclease VapC48 527 527 experimental:508
Rv1242 vapC33 ribonuclease VapC33 526 527 experimental:508
Rv2103c vapC37 ribonuclease VapC37 526 527 experimental:508
Rv2872 vapC43 ribonuclease VapC43 524 524 experimental:508
Rv3408 vapC47 ribonuclease VapC47 485 412
Rv2602 vapC41 ribonuclease VapC41 407 408
Rv2494 vapC38 ribonuclease VapC38 424 407
Rv0240 vapC24 ribonuclease VapC24 406 407
Rv1962c vapC35 ribonuclease VapC35 406 407
Rv3320c vapC44 ribonuclease VapC44 406 406
Rv1838c vapC13 ribonuclease VapC13 404 405
Rv2863 vapC23 ribonuclease VapC23 404 405

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: antitoxin VapB31
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: ribbon-helix-helix protein%2C CopG family
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): RHH_1 PF01402.28 (E=5e-06)
  • (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_215262.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — RHH_1 (PF01402.28)
  • 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 2DDJC
  • Curated reference: UniProt O53811 (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 — 30 functional partner(s); context anchor vapC31
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_000295|Rv0748|vapB31
MRTTVSISDELLATAKRRARERG