glgB Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1326c · MTBC0 mtbc0_001423 · 731 aa · 1500819–1503014 (-) · RefSeq NP_215842.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)1,4-alpha-glucan branching protein
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation1%2C4-alpha-glucan branching protein GlgB
Revised (this work)1%2C4-alpha-glucan branching protein GlgB. Pfam: GlgB_N (PF22019.3), CBM_48 (PF02922.25), Alpha-amylase (PF00128.32), Alpha-amylase_C (PF02806.25).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WN45 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt name1,4-alpha-glucan branching enzyme GlgB
EC (curated) EC 2.4.1.18
Curated functionEssential enzyme that catalyzes the formation of the alpha-1,6-glucosidic linkages in glucan chains by scission of a 1,4-alpha-linked oligosaccharide from growing alpha-1,4-glucan chains and the subsequent attachment of the oligosaccharide to the alpha-1,6 position. Is involved in the biosynthesis of both glycogen and capsular alpha-D-glucan.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category G Carbohydrate transport and metabolism
Preferred nameglgB
eggNOG descriptionCatalyzes the formation of the alpha-1,6-glucosidic linkages in glycogen by scission of a 1,4-alpha-linked oligosaccharide from growing alpha-1,4-glucan chains and the subsequent attachment of the oligosaccharide to the alpha-1,6 position
Orthologous groupCOG0296
EC number EC 2.4.1.18
KEGG orthology K00700
KEGG pathways map00500, map01100, map01110
KEGG modules M00565
CAZy family CBM48, GH13
Gene Ontology (43) GO:0000271, GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0003844, GO:0005575, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0005975, GO:0005976, GO:0005977, GO:0005978, GO:0006073 +31 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 0.354 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 8 synonymous, 9 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
GlgB_NPF22019.3 2.1e-2516–104 alpha-1,4-glucan branching enzyme GlgB, N-terminal domain
CBM_48PF02922.25 2.5e-23130–216 Carbohydrate-binding module 48 (Isoamylase N-terminal domain)
Alpha-amylasePF00128.32 3.3e-09280–348 Alpha amylase, catalytic domain
Alpha-amylase_CPF02806.25 3.3e-25633–730 Alpha amylase, C-terminal all-beta domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: glgE (alpha-1,4-glucan:maltose-1-phosphate maltosyltransferase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 999 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1327c glgE alpha-1,4-glucan:maltose-1-phosphate maltosyltransferase 999 999 ctx neighborhood:882 coexpression:844 database:900 textmining:965
Rv1328 glgP glycogen phosphorylase 999 995 ctx neighborhood:768 coexpression:732 database:900 textmining:937
Rv1781c malQ 4-alpha-glucanotransferase 997 991 ctx fusion:736 cooccurence:441 coexpression:409 database:900 textmining:773
Rv1564c treX maltooligosyl trehalose synthase 993 981 coexpression:704 database:900 textmining:666
Rv3032 glycogen synthase 997 977 coexpression:410 database:955 textmining:890
Rv0127 mak maltokinase 997 949 ctx fusion:899 textmining:955
Rv1213 glgC glucose-1-phosphate adenylyltransferase 997 944 ctx cooccurence:763 coexpression:734 textmining:959
Rv0126 treS trehalose synthase/amylase TreS 997 935 database:900 textmining:965
Rv1212c glgA capsular glucan synthase 995 910 coexpression:410 database:777 textmining:954
Rv3068c pgmA phosphoglucomutase PgmA 917 906 ctx fusion:687 coexpression:696
Rv3031 1,4-alpha-glucan-branching protein 987 903 database:900 textmining:875
Rv2610c pimA alpha-(1-2)-phosphatidylinositol mannosyltransferase 817 783 coexpression:414 database:572
Rv2729c integral membrane protein 805 782 coexpression:411 database:572
Rv0806c cpsY exopolysaccharide phosphotransferase CpsY 792 782 coexpression:411 database:572
Rv2188c pimB alpha-(1-6)-phosphatidylinositol monomannoside mannosyltransferase 819 781 coexpression:407 database:572

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: 1,4-alpha-glucan branching protein
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: 1%2C4-alpha-glucan branching protein GlgB
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): GlgB_N PF22019.3 (E=2e-25), CBM_48 PF02922.25 (E=3e-23), Alpha-amylase PF00128.32 (E=3e-09), Alpha-amylase_C PF02806.25 (E=3e-25)
  • (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_215842.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — GlgB_N (PF22019.3), CBM_48 (PF02922.25), Alpha-amylase (PF00128.32), Alpha-amylase_C (PF02806.25)
  • 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 COG0296
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WN45 (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 — 52 functional partner(s); context anchor glgE
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_001423|Rv1326c|glgB
MSRSEKLTGEHLAPEPAEMARLVAGTHHNPHGILGAHEYGDHTVIRAFRPHAVEVVALVGKDRFSLQHLDSGLFAVALPFVDLIDYRLQVTYEGCEPHTVADAYRFLPTLGEVDLHLFAEGRHERLWEVLGAHPRSFTTADGVVSGVSFAVWAPNAKGVSLIGEFNGWNGHEAPMRVLGPSGVWELFWPDFPCDGLYKFRVHGADGVVTDRADPFAFGTEVPPQTASRVTSSDYTWGDDDWMAGRALRNPVNEAMSTYEVHLGSWRPGLSYRQLARELTDYIVDQGFTHVELLPVAEHPFAGSWGYQVTSYYAPTSRFGTPDDFRALVDALHQAGIGVIVDWVPAHFPKDAWALGRFDGTPLYEHSDPKRGEQLDWGTYVFDFGRPEVRNFLVANALYWLQEFHIDGLRVDAVASMLYLDYSRPEGGWTPNVHGGRENLEAVQFLQEMNATAHKVAPGIVTIAEESTSWPGVTRPTNIGGLGFSMKWNMGWMHDTLDYVSRDPVYRSYHHHEMTFSMLYAFSENYVLPLSHDEVVHGKGTLWGRMPGNNHVKAAGLRSLLAYQWAHPGKQLLFMGQEFGQRAEWSEQRGLDWFQLDENGFSNGIQRLVRDINDIYRCHPALWSLDTTPEGYSWIDANDSANNVLSFMRYGSDGSVLACVFNFAGAEHRDYRLGLPRAGRWREVLNTDATIYHGSGIGNLGGVDATDDPWHGRPASAVLVLPPTSALWLTPA