mca Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1082 · MTBC0 mtbc0_001162 · 288 aa · 1214789–1215655 (+) · RefSeq NP_215598.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)mycothiol S-conjugate amidase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationmycothiol conjugate amidase Mca
Revised (this work)Mycothiol conjugate amidase Mca. Pfam: PIG-L (PF02585.23).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WJN1 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameMycothiol S-conjugate amidase
EC (curated) EC 3.5.1.115
Curated functionA mycothiol (MSH, N-acetyl-cysteinyl-glucosaminyl-inositol) S-conjugate amidase, it recycles conjugated MSH to the N-acetyl cysteine conjugate and the MSH precursor. Involved in MSH-dependent detoxification of a number of alkylating agents and antibiotics. Activity is specific for the mycothiol moiety. Has a low but measurable deacetylation activity on GlcNAc-Ins (N-acetyl-glucosaminyl-inositol), and thus can also directly contribute to the production of MSH.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category S Function unknown
Preferred namemca
eggNOG descriptionA mycothiol (MSH, N-acetylcysteinyl-glucosaminyl- inositol) S-conjugate amidase, it recycles conjugated MSH to the N-acetyl cysteine conjugate (AcCys S-conjugate, a mercapturic acid) and the MSH precursor. Involved in MSH-dependent detoxification of a number of alkylating agents and antibiotics
Orthologous groupCOG2120
EC number EC 3.5.1.115
KEGG orthology K18455
Gene Ontology (23) GO:0003674, GO:0005488, GO:0006790, GO:0008150, GO:0008152, GO:0008270, GO:0009636, GO:0009987, GO:0010126, GO:0010127, GO:0016137, GO:0042221 +11 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 0.633 · 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)

PfamAccessioni-EvalueResiduesDescription
PIG-LPF02585.23 1.8e-297–152 GlcNAc-PI de-N-acetylase

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

Closest characterised functional partner: Rv1081c (membrane protein), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 780 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1083 hyp hypothetical protein 888 888 ctx neighborhood:881
Rv1084 hyp hypothetical protein 885 885 ctx neighborhood:882
Rv2466c hyp hypothetical protein 789 789 ctx cooccurence:773
Rv1081c membrane protein 780 780 ctx neighborhood:780
Rv0819 mshD mycothiol acetyltransferase 936 767 ctx cooccurence:763 textmining:739
Rv0360c hyp hypothetical protein 741 741 ctx cooccurence:741
Rv2286c hyp hypothetical protein 701 701 ctx cooccurence:700
Rv0486 mshA D-inositol 3-phosphate glycosyltransferase 919 692 ctx cooccurence:668 textmining:748
Rv2130c mshC cysteine:1D-myo-inosityl 2-amino-2-deoxy--D-glucopyranoside ligase 941 594 ctx cooccurence:563 textmining:862
Rv2133c hyp hypothetical protein 571 571 ctx cooccurence:569
Rv1080c greA transcription elongation factor GreA 543 543 ctx neighborhood:468
Rv2134c hyp hypothetical protein 514 515 ctx cooccurence:509
Rv0498 hyp hypothetical protein 487 487 ctx cooccurence:470
Rv1331 clpS ATP-dependent Clp protease adapter protein ClpS 486 487 ctx cooccurence:485
Rv2111c pup ubiquitin-like protein Pup 433 433 ctx cooccurence:425

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: mycothiol S-conjugate amidase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: mycothiol conjugate amidase Mca
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): PIG-L PF02585.23 (E=2e-29)
  • (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_215598.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — PIG-L (PF02585.23)
  • 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 COG2120
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WJN1 (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 — 32 functional partner(s); context anchor Rv1081c
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_001162|Rv1082|mca
MSELRLMAVHAHPDDESSKGAATLARYADEGHRVLVVTLTGGERGEILNPAMDLPDVHGRIAEIRRDEMTKAAEILGVEHTWLGFVDSGLPKGDLPPPLPDDCFARVPLEVSTEALVRVVREFRPHVMTTYDENGGYPHPDHIRCHQVSVAAYEAAGDFCRFPDAGEPWTVSKLYYVHGFLRERMQMLQDEFARHGQRGPFEQWLAYWDPDHDFLTSRVTTRVECSKYFSQRDDALRAHATQIDPNAEFFAAPLAWQERLWPTEEFELARSRIPARPPETELFAGIEP