rapZ Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1421 · MTBC0 mtbc0_001521 · 301 aa · 1605323–1606228 (+) · RefSeq NP_215937.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)hypothetical protein
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationRNase adapter RapZ
Revised (this work)RNase adapter RapZ. Pfam: RapZ-like_N (PF03668.22), PapZ_C (PF22740.2).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WFQ3 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameNucleotide-binding protein Rv1421
Curated functionDisplays ATPase and GTPase activities.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category S Function unknown
Preferred nameyvcJ
eggNOG descriptionDisplays ATPase and GTPase activities
Orthologous groupCOG1660
KEGG orthology K06958
Gene Ontology (6) GO:0005575, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0016020, GO:0044464, GO:0071944

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 0.236 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 6 synonymous, 4 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
RapZ-like_NPF03668.22 1.0e-7117–173 RapZ-like N-terminal domain
PapZ_CPF22740.2 1.7e-45179–298 RapZ C-terminal domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: whiA (transcriptional regulator WhiA), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 941 excluding text-mining). This association is the citable seed of a function hypothesis for this hypothetical protein.

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1422 cuvA hyp hypothetical protein 972 968 ctx neighborhood:882 coexpression:743
Rv1423 whiA transcriptional regulator WhiA 948 941 ctx neighborhood:882 coexpression:431
Rv1420 uvrC excinuclease ABC subunit UvrC 893 888 ctx neighborhood:882
Rv1417 membrane protein 696 696 ctx neighborhood:682
Rv3261 fbiA 2-phospho-L-lactate transferase 732 692 coexpression:674
Rv1415 ribA2 bifunctional riboflavin biosynthesis GTP cyclohydrolase II/3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone 4-phosphate synthase 702 692 ctx neighborhood:682
Rv1416 ribH 6,7-dimethyl-8-ribityllumazine synthase 689 689 ctx neighborhood:682
Rv2444c rne ribonuclease E 700 668 experimental:652
Rv1158c hyp hypothetical protein 695 663 experimental:652
Rv3441c mrsA phosphoglucosamine mutase 663 646 ctx cooccurence:630
Rv1419 hyp hypothetical protein 607 608 ctx neighborhood:607
Rv3600c coaX type III pantothenate kinase 464 465 ctx cooccurence:412
Rv1418 lprH lipoprotein LprH 442 442 ctx neighborhood:435
Rv3241c raiA hyp hypothetical protein 467 435
Rv1640c lysX bifunctional lysine--tRNA ligase/phosphatidylglycerol lysyltransferase 429 430

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: hypothetical protein
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: RNase adapter RapZ
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): RapZ-like_N PF03668.22 (E=1e-71), PapZ_C PF22740.2 (E=2e-45)
  • (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_215937.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — RapZ-like_N (PF03668.22), PapZ_C (PF22740.2)
  • 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 COG1660
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WFQ3 (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 — 19 functional partner(s); context anchor whiA
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_001521|Rv1421|rapZ
MMNHARGVENRSEGGGIDVVLVTGLSGAGRGTAAKVLEDLGWYVADNLPPQLITRMVDFGLAAGSRITQLAVVMDVRSRGFTGDLDSVRNELATRAITPRVVFMEASDDTLVRRYEQNRRSHPLQGEQTLAEGIAAERRMLAPVRATADLIIDTSTLSVGGLRDSIERAFGGDGGATTSVTVESFGFKYGLPMDADMVMDVRFLPNPHWVDELRPLTGQHPAVRDYVLHRPGAAEFLESYHRLLSLVVDGYRREGKRYMTIAIGCTGGKHRSVAIAEALMGLLRSDQQLSVRALHRDLGRE