cuvA Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1422 · MTBC0 mtbc0_001522 · 342 aa · 1606225–1607253 (+) · RefSeq NP_215938.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)hypothetical protein
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationcarbon utilization/virulence protein CuvA
Revised (this work)Carbon utilization/virulence protein CuvA. Pfam: CofD (PF01933.24).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WMU5 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt namePutative gluconeogenesis factor
Curated functionRequired for morphogenesis under gluconeogenic growth conditions.

UniProt still lists this protein as Putative gluconeogenesis factor; the revised annotation above is ahead of the current UniProt record.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category S Function unknown
eggNOG descriptionRequired for morphogenesis under gluconeogenic growth conditions
Orthologous groupCOG0391

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 0.194 · strong purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 4 synonymous, 2 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
CofDPF01933.24 3.4e-735–283 2-phospho-L-lactate transferase CofD

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

Closest characterised functional partner: whiA (transcriptional regulator WhiA), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 965 excluding text-mining). This association is the citable seed of a function hypothesis for this hypothetical protein.

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1421 rapZ hyp hypothetical protein 972 968 ctx neighborhood:882 coexpression:743
Rv1423 whiA transcriptional regulator WhiA 969 965 ctx neighborhood:882 coexpression:673
Rv1420 uvrC excinuclease ABC subunit UvrC 890 885 ctx neighborhood:882
Rv1417 membrane protein 691 692 ctx neighborhood:682
Rv1416 ribH 6,7-dimethyl-8-ribityllumazine synthase 691 692 ctx neighborhood:682
Rv1415 ribA2 bifunctional riboflavin biosynthesis GTP cyclohydrolase II/3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone 4-phosphate synthase 687 687 ctx neighborhood:682
Rv1419 hyp hypothetical protein 596 597 ctx neighborhood:594
Rv0018c pstP phosphoserine/threonine phosphatase PstP 813 578 coexpression:512 textmining:576
Rv1460 sufR transcriptional regulator 562 562 ctx cooccurence:557
Rv1418 lprH lipoprotein LprH 439 439 ctx neighborhood:435
Rv3840 transcriptional regulator 418 419 ctx cooccurence:415
Rv1018c glmU bifunctional UDP-N-acetylglucosamine pyrophosphorylase/glucosamine-1-phosphate N-acetyltransferase 415 353
Rv2332 mez malate oxidoreductase 629 231 textmining:538
Rv3262 fbiB coenzyme F420:L-glutamate ligase 402 168
Rv1224 tatB Sec-independent protein translocase protein TatB 680 102 textmining:659

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: carbon utilization/virulence protein CuvA
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): CofD PF01933.24 (E=3e-73)
  • (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_215938.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — CofD (PF01933.24)
  • 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 COG0391
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WMU5 (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 — 18 functional partner(s); context anchor whiA
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_001522|Rv1422|cuvA
MTDGIVALGGGHGLYATLSAARRLTPYVTAVVTVADDGGSSGRLRSELDVVPPGDLRMALAALASDSPHGRLWATILQHRFGGSGALAGHPIGNLMLAGLSEVLADPVAALDELGRILGVKGRVLPMCPVALQIEADVSGLEADPRMFRLIRGQVAIATTPGKVRRVRLLPTDPPATRQAVDAIMAADLVVLGPGSWFTSVIPHVLVPGLAAALRATSARRALVLNLVAEPGETAGFSVERHLHVLAQHAPGFTVHDIIIDAERVPSEREREQLRRTATMLQAEVHFADVARPGTPLHDPGKLAAVLDGVCARDVGASEPPVAATQEIPIDGGRPRGDDAWR