ephC Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1124 · MTBC0 - · 316 aa · 1247127–1248077 (+) · RefSeq NP_215640.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)epoxide hydrolase EphC
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Epoxide hydrolase EphC. Pfam: Abhydrolase_1 (PF00561.27), Abhydrolase_6 (PF12697.14).

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 O06576 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameProbable epoxide hydrolase EphC

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category S Function unknown
Preferred nameephC
eggNOG descriptionAlpha beta hydrolase
Orthologous groupCOG0596

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 0.115 · strong purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 3 synonymous, 1 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
Abhydrolase_1PF00561.27 6.8e-2245–301 alpha/beta hydrolase fold
Abhydrolase_6PF12697.14 4.0e-1645–306 Alpha/beta hydrolase family

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

Closest characterised functional partner: bpoB (peroxidase BpoB), medium confidence from genomic context alone (score 662 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1125 hyp hypothetical protein 903 903 ctx neighborhood:881
Rv1123c bpoB peroxidase BpoB 662 662 ctx neighborhood:553
Rv2296 dhmA1 haloalkane dehalogenase 615 615 ctx cooccurence:615
Rv2048c pks12 polyketide synthase 527 500 experimental:441
Rv1527c pks5 polyketide synthase 527 500 experimental:441
Rv3825c pks2 phthioceranic/hydroxyphthioceranic acid synthase 526 499 experimental:441
Rv2940c mas multifunctional mycocerosic acid synthase 526 498 experimental:441
Rv2933 ppsC phthiocerol synthesis polyketide synthase type I PpsC 526 498 experimental:441
Rv3171c hpx non-heme haloperoxidase Hpx 497 498 ctx cooccurence:495
Rv2579 dhaA haloalkane dehalogenase 482 482 ctx cooccurence:479
Rv1833c dhmA2 haloalkane dehalogenase 480 481 ctx cooccurence:480
Rv0125 pepA serine protease PepA 480 480
Rv2946c pks1 polyketide synthase 486 455
Rv0983 pepD serine protease PepD 449 448
Rv1223 htrA serine protease HtrA 438 437

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): epoxide hydrolase EphC
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Abhydrolase_1 PF00561.27 (E=7e-22), Abhydrolase_6 PF12697.14 (E=4e-16)
  • (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_215640.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Abhydrolase_1 (PF00561.27), Abhydrolase_6 (PF12697.14)
  • 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 COG0596
  • Curated reference: UniProt O06576 (TrEMBL, unreviewed; 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 — 25 functional partner(s); context anchor bpoB
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv1124|ephC
MRAGRGERESTWRTTMAEPHWIDVKGPNGDLKALTWGPAGAPVALCLHGFPDTAYGWRKVAPRLAESGWHVVAPFMRGYAPSSIPADGSYHVGALMHDALRVRSAAGGTERDVIIGHDWGAIAATGLAAMPDSPFAKAVIMSVPPSAAFRPLGRVPERGRLLRELPHQLLRSWYILYFQLPWLPERSASWVVPLLWRRWSPGYHAEEDLRHVDAAIGTPEGRRAALGPYRATMRNTRAPADYADLNRLWTEAPKLPVLYLHGHDDGCATSAFTHWTARVLPAGSEVAVVEHAGHFLQLEQPDKIAELIVAFIGSPG