murI Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1338 · MTBC0 mtbc0_001435 · 271 aa · 1515777–1516592 (+) · RefSeq NP_215854.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)glutamate racemase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationglutamate racemase
Revised (this work)Glutamate racemase. Pfam: Asp_Glu_race (PF01177.28).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WPW9 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameGlutamate racemase
EC (curated) EC 5.1.1.3
Curated functionProvides the (R)-glutamate required for cell wall biosynthesis.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category M Cell wall / membrane / envelope biogenesis
Preferred namemurI
eggNOG descriptionProvides the (R)-glutamate required for cell wall biosynthesis
Orthologous groupCOG0796
EC number EC 5.1.1.3
KEGG orthology K01776
KEGG pathways map00471, map01100
Gene Ontology (65) GO:0000270, GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0004857, GO:0005575, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0006022, GO:0006023, GO:0006024, GO:0006807, GO:0008150 +53 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 0.378 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 3 synonymous, 3 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
Asp_Glu_racePF01177.28 1.7e-1922–215 Asp/Glu/Hydantoin racemase

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

Closest characterised functional partner: cysM (O-phosphoserine sulfhydrylase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 973 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1336 cysM O-phosphoserine sulfhydrylase 979 973 ctx neighborhood:881 coexpression:785
Rv1341 rdgB non-canonical purine NTP pyrophosphatase 960 960 ctx neighborhood:632 fusion:890
Rv2155c murD UDP-N-acetylmuramoylalanine--D-glutamate ligase 994 957 ctx cooccurence:550 database:900 textmining:878
Rv1337 integral membrane protein 966 907 ctx neighborhood:881 textmining:650
Rv0788 purQ phosphoribosylformylglycinamidine synthase 901 902 database:900
Rv1334 mec [CysO 885 885 ctx neighborhood:847
Rv1335 cysO sulfur carrier protein CysO 882 882 ctx neighborhood:876
Rv1333 hydrolase 854 854 ctx neighborhood:847
Rv1332 transcriptional regulator 833 834 ctx neighborhood:829
Rv1331 clpS ATP-dependent Clp protease adapter protein ClpS 829 829 ctx neighborhood:829
Rv1339 hyp hypothetical protein 756 757 ctx neighborhood:746
Rv1330c pncB1 nicotinic acid phosphoribosyltransferase PncB1 757 748 ctx neighborhood:747
Rv1340 rphA ribonuclease PH 743 743 ctx neighborhood:714
Rv1329c dinG ATP-dependent helicase DinG 587 588 ctx neighborhood:577
Rv3455c truA tRNA pseudouridine synthase A 462 462 coexpression:431

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: glutamate racemase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: glutamate racemase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Asp_Glu_race PF01177.28 (E=2e-19)
  • (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_215854.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Asp_Glu_race (PF01177.28)
  • 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 COG0796
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WPW9 (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 — 50 functional partner(s); context anchor cysM
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_001435|Rv1338|murI
MNSPLAPVGVFDSGVGGLTVARAIIDQLPDEDIVYVGDTGNGPYGPLTIPEIRAHALAIGDDLVGRGVKALVIACNSASSACLRDARERYQVPVVEVILPAVRRAVAATRNGRIGVIGTRATITSHAYQDAFAAARDTEITAVACPRFVDFVERGVTSGRQVLGLAQGYLEPLQRAEVDTLVLGCTHYPLLSGLIQLAMGENVTLVSSAEETAKEVVRVLTEIDLLRPHDAPPATRIFEATGDPEAFTKLAARFLGPVLGGVQPVHPSRIH