omt Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1153c · MTBC0 mtbc0_001239 · 282 aa · 1288439–1289287 (-) · RefSeq NP_215669.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)O-methyltransferase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationclass I SAM-dependent methyltransferase
Revised (this work)Class I SAM-dependent methyltransferase. Pfam: LCM (PF04072.21).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt O06551 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameProbable O-methyltransferase Omt

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category Q Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport and catabolism
Preferred nameomt
eggNOG descriptionO-Methyltransferase
Orthologous groupCOG3315

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) pseudogene candidate

pN/pS 1.064 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 2 synonymous, 6 missense, 0 nonsense, 1 frameshift
Disruption 1 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 1.28% of strains (1854) · clonal

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
LCMPF04072.21 6.2e-1120–178 Leucine carboxyl methyltransferase

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

Closest characterised functional partner: purD (phosphoribosylamine--glycine ligase), medium confidence from genomic context alone (score 611 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1154c hyp hypothetical protein 883 883 ctx neighborhood:882
Rv0772 purD phosphoribosylamine--glycine ligase 612 611 ctx fusion:611
Rv1155 pyridoxine/pyridoxamine 5'-phosphate oxidase 574 574 ctx neighborhood:573

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: O-methyltransferase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: class I SAM-dependent methyltransferase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): LCM PF04072.21 (E=6e-11)
  • (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_215669.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — LCM (PF04072.21)
  • 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 COG3315
  • Curated reference: UniProt O06551 (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 — 3 functional partner(s); context anchor purD
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_001239|Rv1153c|omt
MSAHKPAKQRVALTGVSETALLTLNARAAEARRRDAIIDDPMAVALVESIDFDFAKFGPTGQGFALRARAFDMAAQHYLDQHPAATVVALAEGLQTSFWRLDVAIPGGQFRWLTVDLPPIVDLRTRLLPSSPRVSVCAQSALDYSWMDSVDPAGGVFITAEGLLMYLQPEQALGLIAQCAQTFPGGQMLFDLPPRWFAGWSRLGLRTSLRYKVPRMPFSMSVAQAADLVNKVPGVVAVRDLRVPPGRGLWVNMALSTVYRLPVFDPLRPCLTLLEFSRPARG