narH Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1162 · MTBC0 - · 558 aa · 1291065–1292741 (+) · RefSeq NP_215678.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)nitrate reductase subunit beta
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Nitrate reductase subunit beta. Pfam: Fer4_11 (PF13247.12), Fer4_10 (PF13237.12), Nitr_red_bet_C (PF14711.12).

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 O06560 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameProbable respiratory nitrate reductase

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category C Energy production and conversion
Preferred namenarH
eggNOG descriptionNitrate reductase beta subunit
Orthologous groupCOG1140
EC number EC 1.7.5.1
KEGG orthology K00371
KEGG pathways map00910, map01120, map02020
KEGG modules M00529, M00530, M00804

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 0.534 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 3 synonymous, 5 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
Fer4_11PF13247.12 1.1e-35177–272 4Fe-4S dicluster domain
Fer4_10PF13237.12 6.7e-09179–229 4Fe-4S dicluster domain
Nitr_red_bet_CPF14711.12 6.7e-29360–441 Respiratory nitrate reductase beta C-terminal

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

Closest characterised functional partner: narG (nitrate reductase subunit alpha), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 1000 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1161 narG nitrate reductase subunit alpha 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:825 cooccurence:774 coexpression:961 experimental:829 database:900 textmining:921
Rv1164 narI nitrate reductase subunit gamma 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:804 cooccurence:774 coexpression:957 experimental:652 database:900 textmining:938
Rv1736c narX nitrate reductase-like protein NarX 999 999 ctx cooccurence:774 coexpression:730 experimental:829 database:900 textmining:653
Rv1163 narJ nitrate reductase subunit delta 999 999 ctx neighborhood:804 cooccurence:774 coexpression:968 experimental:501 textmining:937
Rv1737c narK2 nitrate/nitrite transporter 996 989 ctx cooccurence:760 coexpression:463 database:900 textmining:703
Rv2329c narK1 nitrate/nitrite transporter 993 985 ctx cooccurence:723 coexpression:463 database:900 textmining:564
Rv0267 narU nitrite extrusion protein NarU 991 985 ctx cooccurence:721 coexpression:469 database:900 textmining:450
Rv0261c narK3 nitrate/nitrite transporter 991 984 ctx cooccurence:708 coexpression:461 database:900 textmining:482
Rv0253 nirD nitrite reductase small subunit NirD 978 951 coexpression:517 database:900 textmining:585
Rv0252 nirB nitrite reductase large subunit NirB 965 942 coexpression:423 database:900 textmining:435
Rv2781c oxidoreductase 902 903 database:900
Rv0021c hyp hypothetical protein 901 902 database:900
Rv1175c fadH NADPH dependent 2,4-dienoyl-CoA reductase FadH 908 899 experimental:899
Rv2194 qcrC ubiquinol-cytochrome C reductase cytochrome subunit C 859 811 experimental:790
Rv1165 typA GTP-binding translation elongation factor 829 795 ctx neighborhood:783

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): nitrate reductase subunit beta
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Fer4_11 PF13247.12 (E=1e-35), Fer4_10 PF13237.12 (E=7e-09), Nitr_red_bet_C PF14711.12 (E=7e-29)
  • (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_215678.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Fer4_11 (PF13247.12), Fer4_10 (PF13237.12), Nitr_red_bet_C (PF14711.12)
  • 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 COG1140
  • Curated reference: UniProt O06560 (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 — 51 functional partner(s); context anchor narG
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv1162|narH
MKVMAQMAMVMNLDKCIGCHTCSVTCKQAWTNRSGTEYVWFNNVETRPGVGYPRTYEDQERWRGGWVRDKKGRLRLRDGGRIHKLLRIFANPKLPTIGDYYEPWTYDYENLTSAPAGDTFPTAAPRSLISGNPMKVSWGSNWDDNLAGSPEIVPNDPVLKKVNQVNQEVKLKLEETFMFYLPRICEHCLNPSCVASCPSGAMYKRTEDGIVLVDQDRCRGWRMCVSGCPYKKVYFNHKTGKAEKCTLCYPRIEVGLPTVCSETCVGRLRYLGLVLYDVDQVLQAASVESDTDLYEAQRRILLDPHDPRVIAGARAEGIADEWIEAAQRSPVYALINTYRVALPLHPEYRTMPMVWYIPPLSPVVDAVSRDGHDGEDLGNLFGALDALRIPIAYLAELFTAGDTEVVAGVLRRLAAMRCYMRDINLGRETQPHIPESVGMTEEQIYQMYRLLAVAKYEERYVIPTSYAGELPAAAMTDDMGCSLSVDGGPGMYESGPFGQGSPTPVPIAVESFHALQHAGSAATGGAGRSRVNLLNWDPNGAAAGLFPEPQPSKDVVQR