ripA Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1477 · MTBC0 mtbc0_001580 · 472 aa · 1676795–1678213 (+) · RefSeq NP_215993.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)peptidoglycan endopeptidase RipA
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationNlpC/P60 family peptidoglycan endopeptidase RipA
Revised (this work)NlpC/P60 family peptidoglycan endopeptidase RipA. Pfam: NLPC_P60 (PF00877.26).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt O53168 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt namePeptidoglycan endopeptidase RipA
EC (curated) EC 3.4.-.-
Curated functionPeptidoglycan endopeptidase that cleaves the bond between D-glutamate and meso-diaminopimelate. Binds and degrades high-molecular weight peptidoglycan from a number of Actinobacteria; activity is increased in the presence of RpfB and inhibited by PBP1A (ponA1). Required for normal separation of daughter cells after cell division and for cell wall integrity. Required for host cell invasion and intracellular survival in host macrophages.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category M Cell wall / membrane / envelope biogenesis
Preferred namerpfI
eggNOG descriptionNLP P60 protein
Orthologous groupCOG0791
KEGG orthology K21473, K21474
Gene Ontology (16) GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0005575, GO:0005576, GO:0005618, GO:0005623, GO:0008150, GO:0008745, GO:0016787, GO:0016810, GO:0016811, GO:0030312 +4 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 0.137 · strong purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 5 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
NLPC_P60PF00877.26 2.9e-29355–469 NlpC/P60 family

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

Closest characterised functional partner: ripB (peptidoglycan endopeptidase RipB), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 983 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1478 ripB peptidoglycan endopeptidase RipB 984 983 ctx neighborhood:874 coexpression:864
Rv3810 pirG cell surface protein 843 843 coexpression:801
Rv1566c ripD hyp hypothetical protein 848 834 coexpression:807
Rv2721c hyp hypothetical protein 837 831 coexpression:804
Rv0040c mtc28 hyp hypothetical protein 810 800 coexpression:800
Rv2154c ftsW lipid II flippase FtsW 840 791 coexpression:791
Rv0312 hyp hypothetical protein 790 782 coexpression:778
Rv1157c hyp hypothetical protein 830 776 coexpression:769
Rv3414c sigD ECF RNA polymerase sigma factor SigD 774 774 coexpression:770
Rv1497 lipL esterase LipL 763 753 coexpression:745
Rv1480 hyp hypothetical protein 587 587 ctx neighborhood:576
Rv1481 membrane protein 805 585 ctx neighborhood:566 textmining:549
Rv1158c hyp hypothetical protein 580 580 coexpression:580
Rv2525c hyp hypothetical protein 604 576 coexpression:562
Rv3102c ftsE cell division ATP-binding protein FtsE 691 568 coexpression:424

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: peptidoglycan endopeptidase RipA
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: NlpC/P60 family peptidoglycan endopeptidase RipA
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): NLPC_P60 PF00877.26 (E=3e-29)
  • (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_215993.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — NLPC_P60 (PF00877.26)
  • 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 COG0791
  • Curated reference: UniProt O53168 (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 — 64 functional partner(s); context anchor ripB
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_001580|Rv1477|ripA
MRRNRRGSPARPAARFVRPAIPSALSVALLVCTPGLATADPQTDTIAALIADVAKANQRLQDLSDEVQAEQESVNKAMVDVETARDNAAAAEDDLEVSQRAVKDANAAIAAAQHRFDTFAAATYMNGPSVSYLSASSPDEIIATVTAAKTLSASSQAVMANLQRARTERVNTESAARLAKQKADKAAADAKASQDAAVAALTETRRKFDEQREEVQRLAAERDAAQARLQAARLVAWSSEGGQGAPPFRMWDPGSGPAGGRAWDGLWDPTLPMIPSANIPGDPIAVVNQVLGISATSAQVTANMGRKFLEQLGILQPTDTGITNAPAGSAQGRIPRVYGRQASEYVIRRGMSQIGVPYSWGGGNAAGPSKGIDSGAGTVGFDCSGLVLYSFAGVGIKLPHYSGSQYNLGRKIPSSQMRRGDVIFYGPNGSQHVTIYLGNGQMLEAPDVGLKVRVAPVRTAGMTPYVVRYIEY