purF Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0808 · MTBC0 - · 527 aa · 902111–903694 (+) · RefSeq NP_215323.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)amidophosphoribosyltransferase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Amidophosphoribosyltransferase. Pfam: GATase_6 (PF13522.12), GATase_7 (PF13537.12), Pribosyltran (PF00156.34).

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 P9WHQ7 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameAmidophosphoribosyltransferase
EC (curated) EC 2.4.2.14
Curated functionCatalyzes the formation of phosphoribosylamine from phosphoribosylpyrophosphate (PRPP) and glutamine.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category F Nucleotide transport and metabolism
Preferred namepurF
eggNOG descriptionCatalyzes the formation of phosphoribosylamine from phosphoribosylpyrophosphate (PRPP) and glutamine
Orthologous groupCOG0034
EC number EC 2.4.2.14
KEGG orthology K00764
KEGG pathways map00230, map00250, map01100, map01110, map01130
KEGG modules M00048
Gene Ontology (2) GO:0008150, GO:0040007

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 0.226 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 11 synonymous, 7 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
GATase_6PF13522.12 9.6e-1392–235 Glutamine amidotransferase domain
GATase_7PF13537.12 1.1e-10107–239 Glutamine amidotransferase domain
PribosyltranPF00156.34 1.5e-06309–410 Phosphoribosyl transferase domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: purM (phosphoribosylformylglycinamidine cyclo-ligase PurM), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 998 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0809 purM phosphoribosylformylglycinamidine cyclo-ligase PurM 998 998 ctx neighborhood:830 fusion:680 cooccurence:773 coexpression:859 textmining:409
Rv0772 purD phosphoribosylamine--glycine ligase 997 997 ctx cooccurence:770 coexpression:857 database:900
Rv0788 purQ phosphoribosylformylglycinamidine synthase 996 996 ctx cooccurence:690 coexpression:859 database:900
Rv0803 purL phosphoribosylformylglycinamidine synthase 2 989 984 ctx fusion:624 cooccurence:577 coexpression:858
Rv1384 carB carbamoyl-phosphate synthase large subunit 981 975 coexpression:665 database:900
Rv0957 purH bifunctional phosphoribosylaminoimidazolecarboxamide formyltransferase/inosinemonophosphate cyclohydrolase 978 969 ctx cooccurence:697 coexpression:857
Rv0956 purN phosphoribosylglycinamide formyltransferase PurN 975 968 ctx cooccurence:719 coexpression:857
Rv1383 carA carbamoyl-phosphate synthase small subunit 969 967 coexpression:594 database:900
Rv3275c purE 5-(carboxyamino)imidazole ribonucleotide mutase 997 965 ctx cooccurence:728 coexpression:858 textmining:927
Rv3859c gltB glutamate synthase large subunit 965 953 ctx neighborhood:544 database:900
Rv1017c prsA ribose-phosphate pyrophosphokinase 959 918 database:900 textmining:519
Rv0777 purB adenylosuccinate lyase PurB 945 914 coexpression:857
Rv3436c glmS glucosamine--fructose-6-phosphate aminotransferase 918 908 database:900
Rv3858c gltD glutamate synthase small subunit 913 905 database:900
Rv2222c glnA2 glutamine synthetase 912 905 database:900

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): amidophosphoribosyltransferase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): GATase_6 PF13522.12 (E=1e-12), GATase_7 PF13537.12 (E=1e-10), Pribosyltran PF00156.34 (E=2e-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_215323.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — GATase_6 (PF13522.12), GATase_7 (PF13537.12), Pribosyltran (PF00156.34)
  • 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 COG0034
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WHQ7 (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 — 77 functional partner(s); context anchor purM
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv0808|purF
MAVDSDYVTDRAAGSRQTVTGQQPEQDLNSPREECGVFGVWAPGEDVAKLTYYGLYALQHRGQEAAGIAVADGSQVLVFKDLGLVSQVFDEQTLAAMQGHVAIGHCRYSTTGDTTWENAQPVFRNTAAGTGVALGHNGNLVNAAALAARARDAGLIATRCPAPATTDSDILGALLAHGAADSTLEQAALDLLPTVRGAFCLTFMDENTLYACRDPYGVRPLSLGRLDRGWVVASETAALDIVGASFVRDIEPGELLAIDADGVRSTRFANPTPKGCVFEYVYLARPDSTIAGRSVHAARVEIGRRLARECPVEADLVIGVPESGTPAAVGYAQESGVPYGQGLMKNAYVGRTFIQPSQTIRQLGIRLKLNPLKEVIRGKRLIVVDDSIVRGNTQRALVRMLREAGAVELHVRIASPPVKWPCFYGIDFPSPAELIANAVENEDEMLEAVRHAIGADTLGYISLRGMVAASEQPTSRLCTACFDGKYPIELPRETALGKNVIEHMLANAARGAALGELAADDEVPVGR