murA Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1315 · MTBC0 mtbc0_001407 · 418 aa · 1479349–1480605 (+) · RefSeq NP_215831.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 1-carboxyvinyltransferase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationUDP-N-acetylglucosamine 1-carboxyvinyltransferase
Revised (this work)UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 1-carboxyvinyltransferase. Pfam: EPSP_synthase (PF00275.26).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WJM1 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameUDP-N-acetylglucosamine 1-carboxyvinyltransferase
EC (curated) EC 2.5.1.7
Curated functionCell wall formation. Adds enolpyruvyl to UDP-N-acetylglucosamine.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category M Cell wall / membrane / envelope biogenesis
Preferred namemurA
eggNOG descriptionBelongs to the EPSP synthase family. MurA subfamily
Orthologous groupCOG0766
EC number EC 2.5.1.7
KEGG orthology K00790
KEGG pathways map00520, map00550, map01100
Gene Ontology (2) GO:0008150, GO:0040007

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 0.349 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 2 synonymous, 2 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
EPSP_synthasePF00275.26 8.5e-1247–406 EPSP synthase (3-phosphoshikimate 1-carboxyvinyltransferase)

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

Closest characterised functional partner: Rv1314c (cob(I)yrinic acid a,c-diamide adenosyltransferase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 786 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1018c glmU bifunctional UDP-N-acetylglucosamine pyrophosphorylase/glucosamine-1-phosphate N-acetyltransferase 977 921 database:900 textmining:730
Rv0482 murB UDP-N-acetylenolpyruvoylglucosamine reductase 996 908 database:900 textmining:959
Rv1314c cob(I)yrinic acid a,c-diamide adenosyltransferase 786 786 ctx neighborhood:785
Rv2152c murC UDP-N-acetylmuramate--alanine ligase 987 780 ctx cooccurence:727 textmining:948
Rv2158c murE UDP-N-acetylmuramoylalanyl-D-glutamate--2,6-diaminopimelate ligase 963 750 ctx cooccurence:735 textmining:861
Rv2156c murX phospho-N-acetylmuramoyl-pentappeptidetransferase 908 749 ctx cooccurence:733 textmining:649
Rv2154c ftsW lipid II flippase FtsW 893 720 ctx cooccurence:572 textmining:633
Rv3915 cwlM peptidoglycan hydrolase 908 719 ctx cooccurence:701 textmining:686
Rv2163c pbpB penicillin-binding membrane protein PbpB 837 693 ctx cooccurence:680 textmining:494
Rv2157c murF UDP-N-acetylmuramoyl-tripeptide--D-alanyl-D-alanine ligase 966 654 ctx cooccurence:613 textmining:908
Rv2153c murG UDP-N-acetylglucosamine--N-acetylmuramyl-(pentapeptide) pyrophosphoryl-undecaprenol-N-acetylglucosamine transferase 976 638 ctx cooccurence:606 textmining:937
Rv2155c murD UDP-N-acetylmuramoylalanine--D-glutamate ligase 975 626 ctx cooccurence:591 textmining:937
Rv0017c rodA cell division protein RodA 708 554
Rv3859c gltB glutamate synthase large subunit 654 546 ctx neighborhood:544
Rv1307 atpH ATP synthase subunit b/delta 573 530

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: UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 1-carboxyvinyltransferase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 1-carboxyvinyltransferase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): EPSP_synthase PF00275.26 (E=9e-124)
  • (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_215831.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — EPSP_synthase (PF00275.26)
  • 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 COG0766
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WJM1 (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 — 64 functional partner(s); context anchor Rv1314c
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_001407|Rv1315|murA
MAERFVVTGGNRLSGEVAVGGAKNSVLKLMAATLLAEGTSTITNCPDILDVPLMAEVLRGLGATVELDGDVARITAPDEPKYDADFAAVRQFRASVCVLGPLVGRCKRARVALPGGDAIGSRPLDMHQAGLRQLGAHCNIEHGCVVARAETLRGAEIQLEFPSVGATENILMAAVVAEGVTTIHNAAREPDVVDLCTMLNQMGAQVEGAGSPTMTITGVPRLHPTEHRVIGDRIVAATWGIAAAMTRGDISVAGVDPAHLQLVLHKLHDAGATVTQTDASFRVTQYERPKAVNVATLPFPGFPTDLQPMAIALASIADGTSMITENVFEARFRFVEEMIRLGADARTDGHHAVVRGLPQLSSAPVWCSDIRAGAGLVLAGLVADGDTEVHDVFHIDRGYPLFVENLVSLGAEIERVCC