Rv1431 Family assigned · medium

H37Rv Rv1431 · MTBC0 mtbc0_001531 · 589 aa · 1617427–1619196 (+) · RefSeq NP_215947.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)hypothetical protein
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationDUF3556 domain-containing protein
Revised (this work)Polytopic integral membrane protein with 11 predicted transmembrane helices (DeepTMHMM). RefSeq leaves it 'hypothetical protein'. A topological feature consistent with a membrane transporter/permease or membrane-embedded enzyme; the transported substrate and molecular function are undetermined.

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt O06827 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameConserved membrane protein

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category S Function unknown
eggNOG descriptionTransmembrane protein of unknown function (DUF3556)
Orthologous group2CB1C

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 0.598 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 5 synonymous, 9 missense, 0 nonsense, 2 frameshift
Disruption 2 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.29% of strains (424) · 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
DUF3556PF12077.14 2.3e-2751–580 Transmembrane protein of unknown function (DUF3556)

Structural neighbours (Foldseek on the ESMFold model, exploratory)

ESMFold model confidence: mean pLDDT 90.6 (very high). A confident model makes the fold comparison meaningful.

Best matches against the PDB, ranked by Foldseek homology probability. A high probability / TM-score suggests a shared fold; unless flagged sig (E < 0.01) these are fold hypotheses, not assignments.

TargetProbTME-valueDescription
5zm6-assembly1_B-2 0.23 0.76 6.0e+00 5zm6-assembly1_B-2 Crystal structure of ORP1-ORD in complex with PI(4,5)P2
5zm8-assembly1_A 0.06 0.39 8.5e+00 5zm8-assembly1_A Crystal structure of ORP2-ORD in complex with PI(4,5)P2
8qyo-assembly1_P 0.02 0.26 6.3e+00 8qyo-assembly1_P Human proteasome 20S core particle
8th3-assembly1_A 0.01 0.12 6.3e+00 8th3-assembly1_A Structure of AT118-H Nanobody Antagonist in Complex with the Angiotensin II Type I Receptor
7qoa-assembly2_B 0.01 0.13 5.1e+00 7qoa-assembly2_B Structure of CodB, a cytosine transporter in an outward-facing conformation
4c5r-assembly1_A 0.01 0.09 3.9e+00 4c5r-assembly1_A Structural Investigations into the Stereochemistry and Activity of a Phenylalanine-2,3-Aminomutase from Taxus chinensis
2yii-assembly1_B 0.01 0.09 3.4e+00 2yii-assembly1_B Manipulating the regioselectivity of phenylalanine aminomutase: new insights into the reaction mechanism of MIO-dependent enzymes from structure-guided directed evolution
6afv-assembly1_A 0.01 0.10 7.5e+00 6afv-assembly1_A Proton pyrophosphatase-L555K mutant

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

Closest characterised functional partner: Rv1432 (dehydrogenase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 931 excluding text-mining). This association is the citable seed of a function hypothesis for this hypothetical protein.

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1432 dehydrogenase 931 931 ctx neighborhood:882 cooccurence:415
Rv1429 hyp hypothetical protein 660 660 ctx cooccurence:466
Rv1430 PE16 PE family protein PE16 551 551 ctx neighborhood:551
Rv1428c hyp hypothetical protein 527 527
Rv3830c TetR family transcriptional regulator 506 507 ctx cooccurence:504
Rv3169 hyp hypothetical protein 503 504 ctx cooccurence:499
Rv1433 ldtMt3 hyp hypothetical protein 497 497 ctx neighborhood:495
Rv3829c dehydrogenase 436 437 ctx cooccurence:416
Rv2574 hyp hypothetical protein 436 436 ctx cooccurence:434
Rv1203c hyp hypothetical protein 430 431 ctx cooccurence:428
Rv0176 Mce associated transmembrane protein 430 431 ctx cooccurence:428
Rv1683 bifunctional long-chain acyl-CoA synthase/lipase 417 417 ctx cooccurence:414

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

  • DeepTMHMM: 11 transmembrane helices (type TM)
  • Integral membrane topology (localisation feature, not a function)
  • DeepTMHMM topology prediction (project 'Still unknown gene function', phase8, 2026-06-10). A topological feature, not a demonstrated molecular function.

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_215947.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — DUF3556 (PF12077.14)
  • 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 2CB1C
  • Curated reference: UniProt O06827 (TrEMBL, unreviewed; 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)
  • Model confidence: ESMFold per-residue pLDDT (mean 90.6, very high)
  • Interaction network: STRING v12.0 (Szklarczyk et al. 2023, doi:10.1093/nar/gkac1000), taxon 83332, CC-BY 4.0 — 12 functional partner(s); context anchor Rv1432
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_001531|Rv1431|
MGFLKPDLPDVDHDTWLTQPRRTRLQVVTRDWVEHGFGTPYAVYLLYLTKIAVYVAAGAAIISLTPGLGGLSRIGDWWTQPIVYQKVIVFTLLFEVLGFGCGSGPLTGRFWPPIGGFLYWLRPNTIRLPAWPDKVPFTQGDTRTVVDVALYAIVLIGGVWALLSPGSPGPGGTPVTAAGDVGLINPVLVVPTIVALGVLGLRDKTIFLAARGEHYWLKLFVFFFPFTDQIAAFKIIMLCLWWGAATSKLNHHFPYVVAVMTSNNALLRSRVFNPIKHLLYRDHANDLRPSWLPKLMAHGGGTTAEFLVPGILVLVADGHPWRWFLIGFMVLFHLNILSNLPMGVPLEWNVFFIFSLCYLFGHYGAITATDLRSPLLLAIVIAVVAVVIMGNLLPEKISFLPAMRYYAGNWATSIWCFRGDAEATMETSVVKSSALVVNQLAKLYDGATAEIMTDKVAAFRAMHTHGRALNGLLPRALDDEAHYRIREGEIVAGPLVGWNFGEGHLHNEQLVAAVQRRCNFADGDLRVIILEGQPIHVQKQWYRIVDAKTGLFEAGYVTVEDMLSRQPWPEPGDEFPVHVTTQRGTPSKP