pknD Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0931c · MTBC0 mtbc0_000989 · 664 aa · 1041137–1043131 (-) · RefSeq NP_215446.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)serine/threonine-protein kinase PknD
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationserine/threonine protein kinase PknD
Revised (this work)Serine/threonine protein kinase PknD. Pfam: Pkinase (PF00069.32), PK_Tyr_Ser-Thr (PF07714.24), NHL (PF01436.28).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WI79 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameSerine/threonine-protein kinase PknD
EC (curated) EC 2.7.11.1
Curated functionPart of a signaling pathway that enables adaptation to osmotic stress through cell wall remodeling and virulence factor production. Phosphorylates the osmosensory protein OprA, which inhibits binding of OprA to Rv2638, leading to the regulation of osmotically regulated genes, including the ESX-1-associated virulence factor espA. In addition, directly phosphorylates the alternative sigma factor SigF and its regulator, Rv1364c, which regulates the SigF-Rv1364c interaction. Can also phosphorylate the FHA domain of Rv1747..; FUNCTION: Key microbial factor required for central nervous system tuberc.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category K Transcription
L Replication, recombination and repair
T Signal transduction mechanisms
Preferred namepknD
eggNOG descriptionserine threonine protein kinase
Orthologous groupCOG0515
EC number EC 2.7.11.1
KEGG orthology K08884
Gene Ontology (106) GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0004672, GO:0004674, GO:0005488, GO:0005575, GO:0005576, GO:0005618, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0005829 +94 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 6.061 · diversifying/relaxed
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 1 synonymous, 16 missense, 1 nonsense, 3 frameshift
Disruption 4 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 9.97% of strains (14481) · convergent

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
PkinasePF00069.32 2.2e-4315–262 Protein kinase domain
PK_Tyr_Ser-ThrPF07714.24 9.6e-2817–261 Protein tyrosine and serine/threonine kinase
NHLPF01436.28 5.3e-08509–535 NHL repeat

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

Closest characterised functional partner: pstP (phosphoserine/threonine phosphatase PstP), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 877 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0018c pstP phosphoserine/threonine phosphatase PstP 903 877 ctx cooccurence:750 coexpression:440
Rv0932c pstS2 phosphate ABC transporter substrate-binding lipoprotein PstS 878 869 ctx neighborhood:716 coexpression:557
Rv2383c mbtB phenyloxazoline synthase 694 682 coexpression:671
Rv2194 qcrC ubiquinol-cytochrome C reductase cytochrome subunit C 687 668 experimental:622
Rv1747 ABC transporter ATP-binding protein/permease 821 613 textmining:559
Rv1827 garA glycogen accumulation regulator GarA 799 611 ctx cooccurence:430 textmining:505
Rv0019c fhaB FHA domain-containing protein FhaB 588 563
Rv3737 transmembrane protein 549 550 ctx neighborhood:544
Rv2031c hspX alpha-crystallin 561 509 experimental:500
Rv0440 groEL2 molecular chaperone GroEL 531 507 experimental:500
Rv2124c metH methionine synthase 489 489 ctx neighborhood:485
Rv3800c pks13 polyketide synthase 513 488 coexpression:444
Rv0020c fhaA FHA domain-containing protein FhaA 763 475 textmining:568
Rv0933 pstB phosphate ABC transporter ATP-binding protein PstB 460 457 ctx neighborhood:451
Rv1157c hyp hypothetical protein 469 443 coexpression:424

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: serine/threonine-protein kinase PknD
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: serine/threonine protein kinase PknD
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Pkinase PF00069.32 (E=2e-43), PK_Tyr_Ser-Thr PF07714.24 (E=1e-27), NHL PF01436.28 (E=5e-08)
  • (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_215446.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Pkinase (PF00069.32), PK_Tyr_Ser-Thr (PF07714.24), NHL (PF01436.28)
  • 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 COG0515
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WI79 (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 — 45 functional partner(s); context anchor pstP
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_000989|Rv0931c|pknD
MSDAVPQVGSQFGPYQLLRLLGRGGMGEVYEAEDTRKHRVVALKLISPQYSDNAVFRARMQREADTAGRLTEPHIVPIHDYGEINGQFFVEMRMIDGTSLRALLKQYGPLTPARAVAIVRQIAAALDAAHANGVTHRDVKPENILVTASDFAYLVDFGIARAASDPGLTQTGTAVGTYNYMAPERFTGDEVTYRADIYALACVLGECLTGAPPYRADSVERLIAAHLMDPAPQPSQLRPGRVPPALDQVIAKGMAKNPAERFMSAGDLAIAAHDALTTSEQHQATTILRRGDNATLLATPADTGLSQSESGIAGAGTGPPTPGAARWSPGDSATVAGPLAADSRGGNWPSQTGHSPAVPNALQASLGHAVPPAGNKRKVWAVVGAAAIVLVAIVAAAGYLVLRPSWSPTQASGQTVLPFTGIDFRLSPSGVAVDSAGNVYVTSEGMYGRVVKLATGSTGTTVLPFNGLYQPQGLAVDGAGTVYVTDFNNRVVTLAAGSNNQTVLPFDGLNYPEGLAVDTQGAVYVADRGNNRVVKLAAGSKTQTVLPFTGLNDPDGVAVDNSGNVYVTDTDNNRVVKLEAESNNQVVLPFTDITAPWGIAVDEAGTVYVTEHNTNQVVKLLAGSTTSTVLPFTGLNTPLAVAVDSDRTVYVADRGNDRVVKLTS