Rv0789c Family assigned · low

H37Rv Rv0789c · MTBC0 - · 199 aa · 883451–884050 (-) · RefSeq NP_215304.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)hypothetical protein
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)YbjN-like fold (putative sensor / regulatory protein). RefSeq leaves it 'hypothetical protein'. The AlphaFold model superposes on YbjN, a putative transcription regulator (PDB 6vu7; Foldseek prob 1.0, E 1e-5, TM 0.80). Fold-level assignment; the regulatory role and partners are not established.

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 I6Y4U0 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Predicted
UniProt nameYbjN domain-containing protein

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

Orthologous group2A1AM

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 0.699 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 1 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)

No Pfam-A domain above the gathering threshold (or not yet scanned).

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

Closest characterised functional partner: Rv0792c (transcriptional regulator), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 734 excluding text-mining). This association is the citable seed of a function hypothesis for this hypothetical protein.

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0790c hyp hypothetical protein 966 753 ctx neighborhood:750 textmining:870
Rv0791c hyp hypothetical protein 966 752 ctx neighborhood:750 textmining:870
Rv0792c transcriptional regulator 903 734 ctx neighborhood:730 textmining:654
Rv0793 monooxygenase 935 527 ctx neighborhood:524 textmining:870
Rv2478c hyp hypothetical protein 552 47 textmining:550
Rv0023 transcriptional regulator 431 41 textmining:431

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

  • Foldseek -> YbjN putative regulator (6vu7), prob 1.0, E 1e-5, TM 0.80
  • Structural homology: AlphaFold DB model + Foldseek vs PDB (project 'Still unknown gene function', phase5-7, 2026-06-10). A fold-level family assignment, not a demonstrated activity.

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_215304.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — none above threshold
  • 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 2A1AM
  • Curated reference: UniProt I6Y4U0 (TrEMBL, unreviewed; Predicted)
  • 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 — 6 functional partner(s); context anchor Rv0792c
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv0789c|
MSRRAIHSGRAAPRRSGNSHLVLRNRVPSSKDSPRRRPHHEFMTESIGEPLSTNLIERYLRARGRRYFRGHHDAEFFFVANAHLRLHVHLEISPAYRDVFTIRVSPAYFFPATDHTRLAEIVNAWNLQNHEVTAIVHGSSDPHRIGVAAERSLIRDRIRFDDFATFVDNAVSAATELFGQLTAAGLPPTATPPLLRDAG