fadA4 Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1323 · MTBC0 - · 389 aa · 1485862–1487031 (+) · RefSeq NP_215839.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase. Pfam: Thiolase_N (PF00108.30), ketoacyl-synt (PF00109.33), Thiolase_C (PF02803.25).

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 P9WG69 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameProbable acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase
EC (curated) EC 2.3.1.9

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category I Lipid transport and metabolism
Preferred namefadA4
eggNOG descriptionCatalyzes the synthesis of acetoacetyl coenzyme A from two molecules of acetyl coenzyme A. It can also act as a thiolase, catalyzing the reverse reaction and generating two-carbon units from the four-carbon product of fatty acid oxidation
Orthologous groupCOG0183
EC number EC 2.3.1.9
KEGG orthology K00626
KEGG pathways map00071, map00072, map00280, map00310, map00362, map00380, map00620, map00630, map00640, map00650, map00720, map00900, map01100, map01110, map01120, map01130, map01200, map01212, map02020
KEGG modules M00088, M00095, M00373, M00374, M00375
Gene Ontology (57) GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0003988, GO:0005575, GO:0005576, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0006082, GO:0006629, GO:0006631, GO:0006635, GO:0008150 +45 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 1.709 · diversifying/relaxed
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 1 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
Thiolase_NPF00108.30 1.7e-961–258 Thiolase, N-terminal domain
ketoacyl-syntPF00109.33 1.4e-0466–119 Beta-ketoacyl synthase, N-terminal domain
Thiolase_CPF02803.25 2.8e-43267–387 Thiolase, C-terminal domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: fadB2 (3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 984 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0860 fadB fatty oxidation protein FadB 998 996 coexpression:698 experimental:804 database:942 textmining:580
Rv0468 fadB2 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase 985 984 ctx cooccurence:515 coexpression:432 experimental:412 database:900
Rv1715 fadB3 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase FadB 982 981 ctx cooccurence:495 coexpression:427 experimental:412 database:900
Rv3667 acs acetyl-CoAsynthetase 944 941 coexpression:416 database:900
Rv1837c glcB malate synthase 941 933 database:900
Rv3710 leuA 2-isopropylmalate synthase 926 924 database:900
Rv2503c scoB succinyl-CoA:3-ketoacid-CoA transferase subunit B 973 923 database:900 textmining:672
Rv0859 fadA acyltransferase 928 923 database:900
Rv3546 fadA5 acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase FadA 923 923 database:900
Rv0243 fadA2 acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase FadA 923 923 database:900
Rv2504c scoA succinyl-CoA:3-ketoacid-CoA transferase subunit A 962 922 database:900 textmining:537
Rv3556c fadA6 acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase FadA 926 921 database:900
Rv1074c fadA3 beta-ketoacyl CoA thiolase FadA 920 920 database:900
Rv0753c mmsA methylmalonate-semialdehyde dehydrogenase 914 911 database:900
Rv2495c bkdC branched-chain keto acid dehydrogenase E2 component 911 908 database:900

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): acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Thiolase_N PF00108.30 (E=2e-96), ketoacyl-synt PF00109.33 (E=1e-04), Thiolase_C PF02803.25 (E=3e-43)
  • (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_215839.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Thiolase_N (PF00108.30), ketoacyl-synt (PF00109.33), Thiolase_C (PF02803.25)
  • 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 COG0183
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WG69 (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 — 139 functional partner(s); context anchor fadB2
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv1323|fadA4
MIVAGARTPIGKLMGSLKDFSASELGAIAIKGALEKANVPASLVEYVIMGQVLTAGAGQMPARQAAVAAGIGWDVPALTINKMCLSGIDAIALADQLIRAREFDVVVAGGQESMTKAPHLLMNSRSGYKYGDVTVLDHMAYDGLHDVFTDQPMGALTEQRNDVDMFTRSEQDEYAAASHQKAAAAWKDGVFADEVIPVNIPQRTGDPLQFTEDEGIRANTTAAALAGLKPAFRGDGTITAGSASQISDGAAAVVVMNQEKAQELGLTWLAEIGAHGVVAGPDSTLQSQPANAINKALDREGISVDQLDVVEINEAFAAVALASIRELGLNPQIVNVNGGAIAVGHPLGMSGTRITLHAALQLARRGSGVGVAALCGAGGQGDALILRAG