mutT2 Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1160 · MTBC0 mtbc0_001249 · 141 aa · 1295036–1295461 (+) · RefSeq NP_215676.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)8-oxo-dGTP diphosphatase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation8-oxo-dGTP diphosphatase MutT
Revised (this work)8-oxo-dGTP diphosphatase MutT. Pfam: NUDIX (PF00293.35).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WIY1 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt namePutative 8-oxo-dGTP diphosphatase 2
EC (curated) EC 3.6.1.55
Curated functionMay be involved in the GO system responsible for removing an oxidatively damaged form of guanine (7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine, 8-oxo-dGTP) from DNA and the nucleotide pool. 8-oxo-dGTP is inserted opposite dA and dC residues of template DNA with almost equal efficiency thus leading to A.T to G.C transversions. MutT specifically degrades 8-oxo-dGTP to the monophosphate (By similarity). In vitro has 8-oxo-dGTPase activity.

UniProt still lists this protein as Putative 8-oxo-dGTP diphosphatase 2; the revised annotation above is ahead of the current UniProt record.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category F Nucleotide transport and metabolism
Preferred namemutT2
eggNOG descriptionBelongs to the Nudix hydrolase family
Orthologous groupCOG1051
EC number EC 3.6.1.55
KEGG orthology K03574

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 0.745 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 2 synonymous, 4 missense, 0 nonsense, 1 frameshift
Disruption 1 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.46% of strains (664) · 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
NUDIXPF00293.35 9.4e-176–125 NUDIX domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: Rv1159A (4a-hydroxytetrahydrobiopterin dehydratase), medium confidence from genomic context alone (score 669 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1159A 4a-hydroxytetrahydrobiopterin dehydratase 669 669 ctx neighborhood:622
Rv1159 pimE polyprenol-phosphate-mannose-dependent alpha-(1-2)-phosphatidylinositol pentamannoside mannosyltransferase 420 420 ctx fusion:409
Rv1161 narG nitrate reductase subunit alpha 469 405 ctx neighborhood:404
Rv1164 narI nitrate reductase subunit gamma 418 295
Rv2924c fpg formamidopyrimidine-DNA glycosylase 556 292
Rv2043c pncA pyrazinamidase/nicotinamidase PncA 413 291
Rv3589 mutY A/G-specific adenine glycosylase 490 118 textmining:446
Rv3056 dinP DNA polymerase IV 2 403 112
Rv0629c recD exonuclease V subunit alpha RecD 496 109 textmining:459
Rv1696 recN DNA repair protein RecN 427 73 textmining:408
Rv1629 polA DNA polymerase I 432 72 textmining:413
Rv1316c ogt methylated-DNA--protein-cysteine methyltransferase 872 70 textmining:868
Rv3908 mutT4 mutator protein MutT 870 47 textmining:870
Rv1210 tagA DNA-3-methyladenine glycosylase I TagA 463 47 textmining:460
Rv3731 ligC DNA ligase C 433 47 textmining:430

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: 8-oxo-dGTP diphosphatase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: 8-oxo-dGTP diphosphatase MutT
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): NUDIX PF00293.35 (E=9e-17)
  • (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_215676.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — NUDIX (PF00293.35)
  • 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 COG1051
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WIY1 (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 — 16 functional partner(s); context anchor Rv1159A
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_001249|Rv1160|mutT2
MLNQIVVAGAIVRGCTVLVAQRVRPPELAGRWELPGGKVAAGETERAALARELAEELGLEVADLAVGDRVGDDIALNGTTTLRAYRVHLLGGEPRARDHRALCWVTAAELHDVDWVPADRGWIADLARTLNGSAADVHRRC