mprA Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv0981 · MTBC0 mtbc0_001052 · 228 aa · 1104158–1104844 (+) · RefSeq NP_215496.2

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)two-component response regulator MrpA
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationtwo-component system response regulator MprA
Revised (this work)Two-component system response regulator MprA. Pfam: Response_reg (PF00072.31), Trans_reg_C (PF00486.35).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WGM9 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameResponse regulator MprA
Curated functionMember of the two-component regulatory system MprB/MprA which contributes to maintaining a balance among several systems involved in stress resistance and is required for establishment and maintenance of persistent infection in the host. Functions as a transcriptional regulator that recognizes a 19-bp nucleotide motif comprizing two loosely conserved 8-bp direct DNA-binding motif repeats separated by a 3-bp spacer region. MprB/MprA is involved in regulation of numerous stress-responsive genes, including up-regulation of two sigma factors, sigE and sigB as well as pepD and mprA, and repression .

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category K Transcription
Preferred namemprA
eggNOG descriptionMember of the two-component regulatory system MprB MprA which contributes to maintaining a balance among several systems involved in stress resistance and is required for establishment and maintenance of persistent infection in the host. Functions as a transcriptional regulator that recognizes a 19-bp nucleotide motif comprizing two loosely conserved 8-bp direct DNA-binding motif repeats separated by a 3-bp spacer region
Orthologous groupCOG0745
KEGG orthology K07669, K07672
KEGG pathways map02020
KEGG modules M00460, M00463
Gene Ontology (79) GO:0000160, GO:0003674, GO:0003676, GO:0003677, GO:0005488, GO:0005575, GO:0005618, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0006355, GO:0007154, GO:0007165 +67 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 0.278 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 4 synonymous, 3 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
Response_regPF00072.31 1.1e-323–112 Response regulator receiver domain
Trans_reg_CPF00486.35 1.5e-26149–223 Transcriptional regulatory protein, C terminal

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

Closest characterised functional partner: mprB (two component histidine-protein kinase/phosphatase MprB), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 999 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0982 mprB two component histidine-protein kinase/phosphatase MprB 999 999 ctx neighborhood:781 cooccurence:771 coexpression:861 database:900 textmining:893
Rv0600c two component sensor kinase HK1 896 892 ctx cooccurence:756
Rv0902c prrB two component sensor histidine kinase PrrB 901 877 ctx cooccurence:719
Rv1032c trcS two component sensor histidine kinase TrcS 883 867 ctx cooccurence:694
Rv0490 senX3 two component sensor histidine kinase SenX3 904 865 ctx cooccurence:745
Rv3764c tcrY two component sensor kinase TcrY 859 851 ctx cooccurence:654
Rv0758 phoR two component system response sensor kinase PhoR 833 825 ctx cooccurence:665
Rv0983 pepD serine protease PepD 790 776 ctx neighborhood:683
Rv3245c mtrB two component sensory histidine kinase MtrB 829 767 ctx cooccurence:580
Rv0601c two component sensor kinase HK2 746 737 ctx cooccurence:404
Rv0984 moaB2 pterin-4-alpha-carbinolamine dehydratase 840 693 ctx neighborhood:678 textmining:502
Rv2998A Rv2998A, len: 67 aa. Probable conserved hypothetical protein, (possibly gene fragment), highly similar to central part of two-component sens 666 654
Rv3365c hyp hypothetical protein 594 579
Rv0979A rpmF 50S ribosomal protein L32 556 557 ctx neighborhood:544
Rv0976c hyp hypothetical protein 548 548 ctx neighborhood:544

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: two-component response regulator MrpA
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: two-component system response regulator MprA
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Response_reg PF00072.31 (E=1e-32), Trans_reg_C PF00486.35 (E=2e-26)
  • (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_215496.2)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Response_reg (PF00072.31), Trans_reg_C (PF00486.35)
  • 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 COG0745
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WGM9 (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 — 47 functional partner(s); context anchor mprB
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_001052|Rv0981|mprA
MRILVVDDDRAVRESLRRSLSFNGYSVELAHDGVEALDMIASDRPDALVLDVMMPRLDGLEVCRQLRSTGDDLPILVLTARDSVSERVAGLDAGADDYLPKPFALEELLARMRALLRRTKPEDAAESMAMRFSDLTLDPVTREVNRGQRRISLTRTEFALLEMLIANPRRVLTRSRILEEVWGFDFPTSGNALEVYVGYLRRKTEADGEPRLIHTVRGVGYVLRETPP