opcA Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1446c · MTBC0 mtbc0_001548 · 303 aa · 1633822–1634733 (-) · RefSeq NP_215962.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)OXPP cycle protein OpcA
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationglucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase assembly protein OpcA
Revised (this work)Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase assembly protein OpcA. Pfam: OpcA_G6PD_assem (PF10128.16), OpcA_G6PD_C (PF20171.4).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt O06813 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameOXPP cycle protein OpcA

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category G Carbohydrate transport and metabolism
Preferred nameopcA
eggNOG descriptionOpcA protein
Orthologous groupCOG3429

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) pseudogene candidate

pN/pS 1.08 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 4 synonymous, 12 missense, 0 nonsense, 2 frameshift
Disruption 2 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 2.27% of strains (3293) · 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
OpcA_G6PD_assemPF10128.16 2.8e-3452–161 Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase subunit N-terminal domain
OpcA_G6PD_CPF20171.4 3.3e-34168–294 Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase subunit C-terminal domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: devB (6-phosphogluconolactonase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 996 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1445c devB 6-phosphogluconolactonase 996 996 ctx neighborhood:882 fusion:892 coexpression:615
Rv1447c zwf2 glucose-6-phosphate 1-dehydrogenase 955 927 ctx neighborhood:811 coexpression:417 textmining:419
Rv1444c hyp hypothetical protein 866 867 ctx neighborhood:865
Rv1448c tal transaldolase 924 853 ctx neighborhood:811 textmining:509
Rv1449c tkt transketolase 880 801 ctx neighborhood:798 textmining:423
Rv2745c clgR transcriptional regulator ClgR 541 541 ctx cooccurence:540
Rv2050 rbpA RNA polymerase-binding protein RbpA 518 519 ctx cooccurence:517
Rv2146c transmembrane protein 511 511 ctx cooccurence:508
Rv3923c rnpA ribonuclease P protein component 467 467 ctx cooccurence:463
Rv1451 ctaB protoheme IX farnesyltransferase 492 460 ctx neighborhood:457
Rv2699c hyp hypothetical protein 454 454 ctx cooccurence:454
Rv2206 transmembrane protein 453 454 ctx cooccurence:451
Rv1423 whiA transcriptional regulator WhiA 435 435 ctx cooccurence:427
Rv2169c transmembrane protein 422 422 ctx cooccurence:422
Rv2413c hyp hypothetical protein 401 402

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: OXPP cycle protein OpcA
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase assembly protein OpcA
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): OpcA_G6PD_assem PF10128.16 (E=3e-34), OpcA_G6PD_C PF20171.4 (E=3e-34)
  • (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_215962.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — OpcA_G6PD_assem (PF10128.16), OpcA_G6PD_C (PF20171.4)
  • 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 COG3429
  • Curated reference: UniProt O06813 (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)
  • Interaction network: STRING v12.0 (Szklarczyk et al. 2023, doi:10.1093/nar/gkac1000), taxon 83332, CC-BY 4.0 — 26 functional partner(s); context anchor devB
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_001548|Rv1446c|opcA
MIVDLPDTTTTAVNKKLDELREKIGAVAMGRVLTLIIAPDSEAMLEESIEAANDASHEHPSRIIVTMRGDPYADRPRLDAQLRVGADAGAGEFVVLRLSGPLAGHADSVVIPFLLPDIPVVAWWPDIAPAVPAQDALGKLAIRRITDATNAIDPLSAIKSRLAGYGAGDTDLAWSRITYWRALLTSAVDQPPHEPIESALVSGLKTEPALDVLAGWLASRIEGPVRRAVGELKVELVRNSETIVLSRPQEGITATLTRTGKPDALVPLARRVTGECLAEDLRRLDPDEIYCAALEGIKKVQYR