irtB Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1349 · MTBC0 mtbc0_001447 · 579 aa · 1526325–1528064 (+) · RefSeq NP_215865.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)iron ABC transporter ATP-binding protein/permease IrtB
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationiron ABC transporter ATP-binding protein/permease IrtB
Revised (this work)Iron ABC transporter ATP-binding protein/permease IrtB. Pfam: ABC_tran (PF00005.34).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WQJ7 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameMycobactin import ATP-binding/permease protein IrtB
EC (curated) EC 7.2.2.-
Curated functionPart of the ABC transporter complex IrtAB involved in the import of iron-bound mycobactin (Fe-MBT) and carboxymycobactin (Fe-cMBT) (By similarity). Transmembrane domains (TMD) form a pore in the membrane and the ATP-binding domain (NBD) is responsible for energy generation (By similarity). Required for replication in human macrophages and in mouse lungs.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category V Defense mechanisms
Preferred nameirtB
eggNOG descriptionABC transporter
Orthologous groupCOG1132
KEGG orthology K14699
KEGG pathways map02010
Gene Ontology (81) GO:0000041, GO:0003674, GO:0005215, GO:0005575, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0005829, GO:0005886, GO:0006810, GO:0006811, GO:0006812 +69 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 0.376 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 3 synonymous, 3 missense, 0 nonsense, 1 frameshift
Disruption 1 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.16% of strains (234) · clonal

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
ABC_tranPF00005.34 1.2e-34349–498 ABC transporter

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

Closest characterised functional partner: irtA (iron ABC transporter ATP-binding protein/permease IrtA), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 998 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1348 irtA iron ABC transporter ATP-binding protein/permease IrtA 999 998 ctx neighborhood:833 coexpression:861 database:900 textmining:623
Rv2380c mbtE peptide synthetase 907 835 coexpression:754 textmining:459
Rv2378c mbtG L-lysine N6-monooxygenase 882 827 coexpression:729
Rv2384 mbtA 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate-AMP ligase 916 825 coexpression:777 textmining:541
Rv0350 dnaK chaperone protein DnaK 824 816 ctx cooccurence:677
Rv3402c hyp hypothetical protein 848 808 coexpression:802
Rv2383c mbtB phenyloxazoline synthase 929 807 coexpression:709 textmining:650
Rv0435c ATPase 809 800 ctx cooccurence:429 database:528
Rv2386c mbtI salicylate synthase 899 774 coexpression:770 textmining:574
Rv2379c mbtF peptide synthetase 793 742 coexpression:738
Rv1687c ABC transporter ATP-binding protein 709 697 database:536
Rv1350 fabG2 3-oxoacyl-ACP reductase FabG 698 689 ctx neighborhood:528
Rv2373c dnaJ2 chaperone protein DnaJ 693 677 ctx cooccurence:573
Rv0282 eccA3 ESX-3 secretion system protein EccA 792 667 database:528 textmining:403
Rv0352 dnaJ1 chaperone protein DnaJ 683 667 ctx cooccurence:559

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: iron ABC transporter ATP-binding protein/permease IrtB
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: iron ABC transporter ATP-binding protein/permease IrtB
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): ABC_tran PF00005.34 (E=1e-34)
  • (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_215865.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — ABC_tran (PF00005.34)
  • 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 COG1132
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WQJ7 (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 — 105 functional partner(s); context anchor irtA
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_001447|Rv1349|irtB
MIRTWIALVPNDHRARLIGFALLAFCSVVARAVGTVLLVPLMAALFGEAPQRAWLWLGWLSAATVAGWVLDAVTARIGIELGFAVLNHTQHDVADRLPVVRLDWFTAENTATARQAIAATGPELVGLVVNLVTPLTSAILLPAVIALALLPISWQLGVAALAGVPLLLGALWASAAFARRADTAADKANTALTERIIEFARTQQALRAARRVEPARSLVGNALASQHTATMRLLGMQIPGQLLFSIASQLALIVLAGTTAALTITGTLTVPEAIALIVVMVRYLEPFTAVSELAPALESTRATLGRIGSVLTAPVMVAGSGTWRDGAVVPRIEFDDVAFGYDGGSGPVLDGVSFCLQPGTTTAIVGPSGCGKSTILALIAGLHQPTRGRVLIDGTDVATLDARAQQAVCSVVFQHPYLFHGTIRDNVFAADPGASDDQFAQAVRLARVDELIARLPDGANTIVGEAGSALSGGERQRVSIARALLKAAPVLLVDEATSALDAENEAAVVDALAADPRSRTRVIVAHRLASIRHADRVLFVDDGRVVEDGSISELLTAGGRFSQFWRQQHEAAEWQILAE