lytB2 Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1110 · MTBC0 - · 335 aa · 1236185–1237192 (+) · RefSeq YP_177788.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-enyl diphosphate reductase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-enyl diphosphate reductase. Pfam: LYTB (PF02401.24).

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 P9WKG1 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt name4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-enyl diphosphate reductase 2
EC (curated) EC 1.17.7.4
Curated functionCatalyzes the conversion of 1-hydroxy-2-methyl-2-(E)-butenyl 4-diphosphate (HMBPP) into a mixture of isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP) and dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMAPP). Acts in the terminal step of the DOXP/MEP pathway for isoprenoid precursor biosynthesis. Has a higher activity compared with LytB2. Is essential for M.tuberculosis growth in vitro.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category I Lipid transport and metabolism
M Cell wall / membrane / envelope biogenesis
Preferred nameispH
eggNOG descriptionCatalyzes the conversion of 1-hydroxy-2-methyl-2-(E)- butenyl 4-diphosphate (HMBPP) into a mixture of isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP) and dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMAPP). Acts in the terminal step of the DOXP MEP pathway for isoprenoid precursor biosynthesis
Orthologous groupCOG0761
EC number EC 1.17.7.4
KEGG orthology K03527
KEGG pathways map00900, map01100, map01110, map01130
KEGG modules M00096

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 0.355 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 2 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
LYTBPF02401.24 1.1e-9728–305 LytB protein

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

Closest characterised functional partner: gcpE (4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-en-1-yl diphosphate synthase (flavodoxin)), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 979 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2868c gcpE 4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-en-1-yl diphosphate synthase (flavodoxin) 992 979 ctx cooccurence:766 database:900 textmining:648
Rv1630 rpsA 30S ribosomal protein S1 912 909 ctx fusion:900
Rv3382c lytB1 4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-enyl diphosphate reductase 913 907 database:900
Rv2173 idsA2 geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthetase IdsA 970 906 database:900 textmining:702
Rv3398c idsA1 multifunctional dimethylallyltransferase/geranyltranstransferase/farnesyltranstransferase 964 906 database:900 textmining:641
Rv3383c idsB polyprenyl synthetase IdsB 957 906 database:900 textmining:566
Rv1086 (2Z,6E)-farnesyl diphosphate synthase 909 904 database:900
Rv1745c idi isopentenyl-diphosphate delta-isomerase 945 901 database:900 textmining:477
Rv2682c dxs1 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase 935 830 ctx cooccurence:706 coexpression:415 textmining:635
Rv1107c xseB exodeoxyribonuclease VII small subunit 808 788 ctx neighborhood:782
Rv1108c xseA exodeoxyribonuclease VII large subunit 788 787 ctx neighborhood:782
Rv1109c hyp hypothetical protein 785 785 ctx neighborhood:782
Rv1488 hyp hypothetical protein 783 783 coexpression:783
Rv2115c mpa proteasome-associated ATPase 783 783 coexpression:783
Rv2870c dxr 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate reductoisomerase 907 781 ctx cooccurence:766 textmining:594

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): 4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-enyl diphosphate reductase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): LYTB PF02401.24 (E=1e-97)
  • (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 YP_177788.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — LYTB (PF02401.24)
  • 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 COG0761
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WKG1 (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 — 34 functional partner(s); context anchor gcpE
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv1110|lytB2
MVPTVDMGIPGASVSSRSVADRPNRKRVLLAEPRGYCAGVDRAVETVERALQKHGPPVYVRHEIVHNRHVVDTLAKAGAVFVEETEQVPEGAIVVFSAHGVAPTVHVSASERNLQVIDATCPLVTKVHNEARRFARDDYDILLIGHEGHEEVVGTAGEAPDHVQLVDGVDAVDQVTVRDEDKVVWLSQTTLSVDETMEIVGRLRRRFPKLQDPPSDDICYATQNRQVAVKAMAPECELVIVVGSRNSSNSVRLVEVALGAGARAAHLVDWADDIDSAWLDGVTTVGVTSGASVPEVLVRGVLERLAECGYDIVQPVTTANETLVFALPRELRSPR