acn Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1475c · MTBC0 mtbc0_001578 · 943 aa · 1673020–1675851 (-) · RefSeq NP_215991.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)iron-regulated aconitate hydratase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationiron-regulated aconitate hydratase Acn
Revised (this work)Iron-regulated aconitate hydratase Acn. Pfam: Aconitase (PF00330.26), Aconitase_C (PF00694.26).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt O53166 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameAconitate hydratase A
EC (curated) EC 4.2.1.3, EC 4.2.1.99
Curated functionInvolved in the catabolism of short chain fatty acids (SCFA) via the tricarboxylic acid (TCA)(acetyl degradation route) and probably via the 2-methylcitrate cycle I (propionate degradation route). Catalyzes the reversible isomerization of citrate to isocitrate via cis-aconitate. The apo form of AcnA functions as a RNA-binding regulatory protein which binds to selected IRE-like sequences present within the UTRs (untranslated regions) of 3' trxC and 5' IdeR mRNA. Could catalyze the hydration of 2-methyl-cis-aconitate to yield (2R,3S)-2-methylisocitrate (By similarity).

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category C Energy production and conversion
Preferred nameacnA
eggNOG descriptionaconitate hydratase
Orthologous groupCOG1048
EC number EC 4.2.1.3
KEGG orthology K01681
KEGG pathways map00020, map00630, map00720, map01100, map01110, map01120, map01130, map01200, map01210, map01230
KEGG modules M00009, M00010, M00012, M00173, M00740
Gene Ontology (78) GO:0003674, GO:0003676, GO:0003723, GO:0003729, GO:0003730, GO:0003824, GO:0003994, GO:0005488, GO:0005506, GO:0005575, GO:0005576, GO:0005618 +66 more

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 0.215 · 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
AconitasePF00330.26 1.2e-16573–606 Aconitase family (aconitate hydratase)
Aconitase_CPF00694.26 9.0e-40735–865 Aconitase C-terminal domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: prpC (methylcitrate synthase PrpC), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 993 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1131 prpC methylcitrate synthase PrpC 995 993 ctx cooccurence:489 coexpression:690 database:941 textmining:411
Rv0889c citA citrate synthase 2 995 991 coexpression:692 database:941 textmining:533
Rv0896 gltA2 citrate synthase 1 995 990 coexpression:699 database:941 textmining:527
Rv3339c icd1 isocitrate dehydrogenase 988 983 coexpression:806 database:900
Rv0066c icd2 isocitrate dehydrogenase 965 919 database:900 textmining:591
Rv0467 icl1 isocitrate lyase 919 908 database:900
Rv1915 aceAa isocitrate lyase AceAa 917 908 database:900
Rv1916 aceAb isocitrate lyase AceAb 916 908 database:900
Rv1474c transcriptional regulator 905 906 ctx neighborhood:879
Rv3846 sodA superoxide dismutase 921 897 experimental:830
Rv2904c rplS 50S ribosomal protein L19 885 878 experimental:863
Rv0979A rpmF 50S ribosomal protein L32 863 864 experimental:832
Rv2441c rpmA 50S ribosomal protein L27 856 851 experimental:832
Rv2909c rpsP 30S ribosomal protein S16 850 849 experimental:832
Rv3456c rplQ 50S ribosomal protein L17 850 843 experimental:832

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: iron-regulated aconitate hydratase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: iron-regulated aconitate hydratase Acn
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Aconitase PF00330.26 (E=1e-165), Aconitase_C PF00694.26 (E=9e-40)
  • (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_215991.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Aconitase (PF00330.26), Aconitase_C (PF00694.26)
  • 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 COG1048
  • Curated reference: UniProt O53166 (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 — 172 functional partner(s); context anchor prpC
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_001578|Rv1475c|acn
MTSKSVNSFGAHDTLKVGEKSYQIYRLDAVPNTAKLPYSLKVLAENLLRNEDGSNITKDHIEAIANWDPKAEPSIEIQYTPARVVMQDFTGVPCIVDLATMREAIADLGGNPDKVNPLAPADLVIDHSVIADLFGRADAFERNVEIEYQRNGERYQFLRWGQGAFDDFKVVPPGTGIVHQVNIEYLASVVMTRDGVAYPDTCVGTDSHTTMVNGLGVLGWGVGGIEAEAAMLGQPVSMLIPRVVGFRLTGEIQPGVTATDVVLTVTEMLRQHGVVGKFVEFYGEGVAEVPLANRATLGNMSPEFGSTAAIFPIDEETIKYLRFTGRTPEQVALVEAYAKAQGMWHDPKHEPEFSEYLELNLSDVVPSIAGPKRPQDRIALAQAKSTFREQIYHYVGNGSPDSPHDPHSKLDEVVEETFPASDPGQLTFANDDVATDETVHSAAAHADGRVSNPVRVKSDELGEFVLDHGAVVIAAITSCTNTSNPEVMLGAALLARNAVEKGLTSKPWVKTTIAPGSQVVNDYYDRSGLWPYLEKLGFYLVGYGCTTCIGNSGPLPEEISKAVNDNDLSVTAVLSGNRNFEGRINPDVKMNYLASPPLVIAYALAGTMDFDFQTQPLGQDKDGKNVFLRDIWPSQQDVSDTIAAAINQEMFTRNYADVFKGDDRWRNLPTPSGNTFEWDPNSTYVRKPPYFEGMTAKPEPVGNISGARVLALLGDSVTTDHISPAGAIKPGTPAARYLDEHGVDRKDYNSFGSRRGNHEVMIRGTFANIRLRNQLLDDVSGGYTRDFTQPGGPQAFIYDAAQNYAAQHIPLVVFGGKEYGSGSSRDWAAKGTLLLGVRAVIAESFERIHRSNLIGMGVIPLQFPEGKSASSLGLDGTEVFDITGIDVLNDGKTPKTVCVQATKGDGATIEFDAVVRIDTPGEADYYRNGGILQYVLRNILKSG