prpC Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1131 · MTBC0 mtbc0_001214 · 393 aa · 1264572–1265753 (+) · RefSeq NP_215647.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)methylcitrate synthase PrpC
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation2-methylcitrate synthase
Revised (this work)2-methylcitrate synthase. Pfam: Citrate_synt (PF00285.27).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt I6Y9Q3 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt name2-methylcitrate synthase
EC (curated) EC 2.3.3.16, EC 2.3.3.5
Curated functionInvolved in the catabolism of short chain fatty acids (SCFA) via the tricarboxylic acid (TCA)(acetyl degradation route) and via the 2-methylcitrate cycle I (propionate degradation route). Catalyzes the Claisen condensation of propionyl-CoA and oxaloacetate (OAA) to yield 2-methylcitrate (2-MC) and CoA. Also catalyzes the condensation of oxaloacetate with acetyl-CoA.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category C Energy production and conversion
Preferred nameprpC
eggNOG descriptionBelongs to the citrate synthase family
Orthologous groupCOG0372
EC number EC 2.3.3.1, EC 2.3.3.5
KEGG orthology K01647, K01659
KEGG pathways map00020, map00630, map00640, map01100, map01110, map01120, map01130, map01200, map01210, map01230
KEGG modules M00009, M00010, M00012, M00740
Gene Ontology (26) GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0006082, GO:0006629, GO:0006631, GO:0008150, GO:0008152, GO:0009987, GO:0016740, GO:0016746, GO:0016999, GO:0017144 +14 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 0.262 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 5 synonymous, 4 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
Citrate_syntPF00285.27 8.7e-12631–377 Citrate synthase, C-terminal domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: prpD (2-methylcitrate dehydratase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 998 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1130 prpD 2-methylcitrate dehydratase 999 998 ctx neighborhood:881 cooccurence:674 coexpression:929 database:500 textmining:906
Rv1475c acn iron-regulated aconitate hydratase 995 993 ctx cooccurence:489 coexpression:690 database:941 textmining:411
Rv1240 mdh malate dehydrogenase 989 979 coexpression:648 experimental:423 database:900 textmining:515
Rv3667 acs acetyl-CoAsynthetase 974 969 coexpression:649 database:900
Rv2495c bkdC branched-chain keto acid dehydrogenase E2 component 958 955 coexpression:424 database:900
Rv1837c glcB malate synthase 981 948 coexpression:435 database:900 textmining:653
Rv1248c kgd multifunctional 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase E1 component /2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase dihydrolipoyllysine-residue succinyltransferase 971 945 coexpression:912 textmining:504
Rv2852c mqo malate:quinone oxidoreductase 974 941 coexpression:412 database:900 textmining:590
Rv2967c pca pyruvate carboxylase 967 935 database:900 textmining:512
Rv0889c citA citrate synthase 2 938 934 database:900
Rv0896 gltA2 citrate synthase 1 923 920 database:900
Rv2455c korA 2-oxoglutarate oxidoreductase subunit KorA 934 907 database:900
Rv2454c korB 2-oxoglutarate oxidoreductase subunit KorB 913 905 database:900
Rv0211 pckA phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase 944 901 database:900 textmining:460
Rv1098c fum fumarate hydratase 958 895 coexpression:418 database:800 textmining:622

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: methylcitrate synthase PrpC
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: 2-methylcitrate synthase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Citrate_synt PF00285.27 (E=9e-126)
  • (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_215647.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Citrate_synt (PF00285.27)
  • 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 COG0372
  • Curated reference: UniProt I6Y9Q3 (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 — 134 functional partner(s); context anchor prpD
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_001214|Rv1131|prpC
MTGPLAAARSVAATKSMTAPTVDERPDIKKGLAGVVVDTTAISKVVPQTNSLTYRGYPVQDLAARCSFEQVAFLLWRGELPTDAELALFSQRERASRRVDRSMLSLLAKLPDNCHPMDVVRTAISYLGAEDPDEDDAAANRAKAMRMMAVLPTIVAIDMRRRRGLPPIAPHSGLGYAQNFLHMCFGEVPETAVVSAFEQSMILYAEHGFNASTFAARVVTSTQSDIYSAVTGAIGALKGRLHGGANEAVMHDMIEIGDPANAREWLRAKLARKEKIMGFGHRVYRHGDSRVPTMKRALERVGTVRDGQRWLDIYQVLAAEMASATGILPNLDFPTGPAYYLMGFDIASFTPIFVMSRITGWTAHIMEQATANALIRPLSAYCGHEQRVLPGTF