metK Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1392 · MTBC0 - · 403 aa · 1566825–1568036 (+) · RefSeq NP_215908.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)S-adenosylmethionine synthetase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)S-adenosylmethionine synthetase. Pfam: S-AdoMet_synt_N (PF00438.26), S-AdoMet_synt_M (PF02772.22), S-AdoMet_synt_C (PF02773.22).

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 P9WGV1 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameS-adenosylmethionine synthase
EC (curated) EC 2.5.1.6
Curated functionCatalyzes the formation of S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) from methionine and ATP. The overall synthetic reaction is composed of two sequential steps, AdoMet formation and the subsequent tripolyphosphate hydrolysis which occurs prior to release of AdoMet from the enzyme.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category H Coenzyme transport and metabolism
Preferred namemetK
eggNOG descriptionCatalyzes the formation of S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) from methionine and ATP. The overall synthetic reaction is composed of two sequential steps, AdoMet formation and the subsequent tripolyphosphate hydrolysis which occurs prior to release of AdoMet from the enzyme
Orthologous groupCOG0192
EC number EC 2.5.1.6
KEGG orthology K00789
KEGG pathways map00270, map01100, map01110, map01230
KEGG modules M00034, M00035, M00368, M00609
Gene Ontology (24) GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0004478, GO:0005488, GO:0005515, GO:0005575, GO:0005618, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0005829, GO:0005886 +12 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 0.524 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 8 synonymous, 12 missense, 0 nonsense, 1 frameshift
Disruption 1 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.27% of strains (397) · 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
S-AdoMet_synt_NPF00438.26 1.1e-377–106 S-adenosylmethionine synthetase, N-terminal domain
S-AdoMet_synt_MPF02772.22 2.6e-45130–251 S-adenosylmethionine synthetase, central domain
S-AdoMet_synt_CPF02773.22 2.8e-65253–392 S-adenosylmethionine synthetase, C-terminal domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: gmk (guanylate kinase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 899 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1416 ribH 6,7-dimethyl-8-ribityllumazine synthase 991 991 coexpression:987
Rv1133c metE 5-methyltetrahydropteroyltriglutamate--homocysteine methyltransferase 981 970 coexpression:662 database:900 textmining:410
Rv0985c mscL large-conductance ion mechanosensitive channel 945 945 coexpression:945
Rv2124c metH methionine synthase 968 932 database:900 textmining:554
Rv2458 mmuM homocysteine S-methyltransferase MmuM 923 900 database:900
Rv1389 gmk guanylate kinase 918 899 ctx neighborhood:699 cooccurence:672
Rv1408 rpe ribulose-phosphate 3-epimerase 797 776 ctx cooccurence:683
Rv1417 membrane protein 785 775 database:584
Rv3248c sahH adenosylhomocysteinase 919 758 coexpression:705 textmining:680
Rv3396c guaA GMP synthase 795 756 coexpression:583
Rv1391 dfp bifunctional phosphopantothenoylcysteine decarboxylase/phosphopantothenate--cysteine ligase 773 751 ctx neighborhood:593
Rv1390 rpoZ DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit omega 751 751 ctx neighborhood:748
Rv0501 galE2 UDP-glucose 4-epimerase GalE 744 731 database:584
Rv0112 gca GDP-mannose 4,6-dehydratase 741 728 database:584
Rv2047c hyp hypothetical protein 777 727 database:584

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): S-adenosylmethionine synthetase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): S-AdoMet_synt_N PF00438.26 (E=1e-37), S-AdoMet_synt_M PF02772.22 (E=3e-45), S-AdoMet_synt_C PF02773.22 (E=3e-65)
  • (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_215908.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — S-AdoMet_synt_N (PF00438.26), S-AdoMet_synt_M (PF02772.22), S-AdoMet_synt_C (PF02773.22)
  • 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 COG0192
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WGV1 (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 — 120 functional partner(s); context anchor gmk
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv1392|metK
MSEKGRLFTSESVTEGHPDKICDAISDSVLDALLAADPRSRVAVETLVTTGQVHVVGEVTTSAKEAFADITNTVRARILEIGYDSSDKGFDGATCGVNIGIGAQSPDIAQGVDTAHEARVEGAADPLDSQGAGDQGLMFGYAINATPELMPLPIALAHRLSRRLTEVRKNGVLPYLRPDGKTQVTIAYEDNVPVRLDTVVISTQHAADIDLEKTLDPDIREKVLNTVLDDLAHETLDASTVRVLVNPTGKFVLGGPMGDAGLTGRKIIVDTYGGWARHGGGAFSGKDPSKVDRSAAYAMRWVAKNVVAAGLAERVEVQVAYAIGKAAPVGLFVETFGTETEDPVKIEKAIGEVFDLRPGAIIRDLNLLRPIYAPTAAYGHFGRTDVELPWEQLDKVDDLKRAI