PE16 Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1430 · MTBC0 - · 528 aa · 1606386–1607972 (+) · RefSeq YP_177810.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)PE family protein PE16
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)PE family protein PE16. Pfam: PE (PF00934.26), PE-PPE (PF08237.18).

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 L7N697 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameEsterase PE16
EC (curated) EC 3.1.1.-
Curated functionEsterase that hydrolyzes short to medium chain fatty acid esters with the highest specific activity for p-nitrophenyl caproate (pNPC6). Has lower activity with p-nitrophenyl caprylate (pNPC8) and p-nitrophenyl butyrate (pNPC4). Has weak activity with p-nitrophenyl caprate (pNPC10) and p-nitrophenyl laurate (pNPC12). Does not possess lipolytic activity and cutinase activity.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category N Cell motility
Preferred namePE16
eggNOG descriptionPE-PPE domain
Orthologous groupCOG3391

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 0.718 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 2 synonymous, 4 missense, 0 nonsense, 2 frameshift
Disruption 2 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.11% of strains (154) · 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
PEPF00934.26 3.6e-334–94 PE family
PE-PPEPF08237.18 1.0e-88146–369 PE-PPE domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: Rv1432 (dehydrogenase), medium confidence from genomic context alone (score 551 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1431 hyp hypothetical protein 551 551 ctx neighborhood:551
Rv1432 dehydrogenase 551 551 ctx neighborhood:551
Rv1364c sigma factor regulatory protein 520 515 coexpression:500
Rv1429 hyp hypothetical protein 457 457 ctx neighborhood:457
Rv3005c hyp hypothetical protein 473 100 textmining:439
Rv0024 NLP/P60 family protein 534 63 textmining:523
Rv1337 integral membrane protein 425 63 textmining:412
Rv2431c PE25 PE family protein PE25 775 41 textmining:775
Rv3893c PE36 PE family protein PE36 626 41 textmining:626
Rv2430c PPE41 PPE family protein PPE41 411 41 textmining:411

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): PE family protein PE16
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): PE PF00934.26 (E=4e-33), PE-PPE PF08237.18 (E=1e-88)
  • (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 YP_177810.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — PE (PF00934.26), PE-PPE (PF08237.18)
  • 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 COG3391
  • Curated reference: UniProt L7N697 (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 — 10 functional partner(s); context anchor Rv1432
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv1430|PE16
MSFVFAVPEMVAATASDLASLGAALSEATAAAAIPTTQVLAAAADEVSAAIAELFGAHGQEFQALSAQASAFHDRFVRALSAAAGWYVDAEAANAALVDTAATGASELGSGGRTALILGSTGTPRPPFDYMQQVYDRYIAPHYLGYAFSGLYTPAQFQPWTGIPSLTYDQSVAEGAGYLHTAIMQQVAAGNDVVVLGFSQGASVATLEMRHLASLPAGVAPSPDQLSFVLLGNPNNPNGGILARFPGLYLQSLGLTFNGATPDTDYATTIYTTQYDGFADFPKYPLNILADVNALLGIYYSHSLYYGLTPEQVASGIVLPVSSPDTNTTYILLPNEDLPLLQPLRGIVPEPLLDLIEPDLRAIIELGYDRTGYADVPTPAALFPVHIDPIAVPPQIGAAIGGPLTALDGLLDTVINDQLNPVVTSGIYQAGAELSVAAAGYGAPAGVTNAIFIGQQVLPILVEGPGALVTADTHYLVDAIQDLAAGDLSGFNQNLQLIPATNIALLVFAAGIPAVAAVAILTGQDFPV