Rv1506c Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1506c · MTBC0 - · 166 aa · 1695943–1696443 (-) · RefSeq NP_216022.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)hypothetical protein
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Contains Methyltransf_25 (PF13649.13), Methyltransf_12 (PF08242.19), Methyltransf_11 (PF08241.19) domain(s); putative function inferred from the domain architecture.

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 P71785 SwissProt · reviewed · Inferred from homology
UniProt namePutative methyltransferase Rv1506c
EC (curated) EC 2.1.1.-
Curated functionProbably plays a role in host phagosome maturation arrest, as well as a role in the synthesis of acyltrehalose-containing glycolipids.

UniProt still lists this protein as Putative methyltransferase Rv1506c; the revised annotation above is ahead of the current UniProt record.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category S Function unknown
eggNOG descriptionMethyltransferase domain
Orthologous groupCOG4106
Gene Ontology (66) GO:0002682, GO:0002683, GO:0006629, GO:0006643, GO:0006664, GO:0008150, GO:0008152, GO:0008610, GO:0009058, GO:0009247, GO:0009605, GO:0009607 +54 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 0.935 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 1 synonymous, 3 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
Methyltransf_25PF13649.13 1.2e-0814–64 Methyltransferase domain
Methyltransf_12PF08242.19 1.3e-0714–79 Methyltransferase domain
Methyltransf_11PF08241.19 8.6e-0714–63 Methyltransferase domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: Rv1503c (Rv1503c, (MTCY277.25c), len: 182 aa. Conserved hypothetical protein, similar to C-terminal region of P27833|RFFA_ECOLI lipopolysaccharide bi), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 838 excluding text-mining). This association is the citable seed of a function hypothesis for this hypothetical protein.

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1505c hyp hypothetical protein 974 947 ctx neighborhood:781 cooccurence:626 coexpression:409 textmining:527
Rv1507c hyp hypothetical protein 914 878 ctx neighborhood:479 cooccurence:761
Rv1503c Rv1503c, (MTCY277.25c), len: 182 aa. Conserved hypothetical protein, similar to C-terminal region of P27833|RFFA_ECOLI lipopolysaccharide bi 949 838 ctx neighborhood:518 cooccurence:651 textmining:699
Rv1504c Rv1504c, (MTCY277.26c), len: 199 aa. Conserved hypothetical protein, similar to N-terminal region of P27833|RFFA_ECOLI lipopolysaccharide bi 845 822 ctx neighborhood:518 cooccurence:621
Rv1502 hyp hypothetical protein 609 609 ctx cooccurence:578
Rv3402c hyp hypothetical protein 445 376
Rv0218 transmembrane protein 453 70 textmining:437
Rv1518 hyp hypothetical protein 525 66 textmining:513
Rv1516c sugar transferase 872 58 textmining:870
Rv2900c fdhF formate dehydrogenase subunit alpha FdhF 450 53 textmining:443
Rv0586 mce2R HTH-type transcriptional regulator Mce2R 516 51 textmining:511
Rv2171 lppM lipoprotein LppM 400 41 textmining:400

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): hypothetical protein
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Methyltransf_25 PF13649.13 (E=1e-08), Methyltransf_12 PF08242.19 (E=1e-07), Methyltransf_11 PF08241.19 (E=9e-07)
  • (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_216022.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Methyltransf_25 (PF13649.13), Methyltransf_12 (PF08242.19), Methyltransf_11 (PF08241.19)
  • 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 COG4106
  • Curated reference: UniProt P71785 (SwissProt, reviewed; Inferred from homology)
  • 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 — 12 functional partner(s); context anchor Rv1503c
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv1506c|
MRIVNAADPFSINDLGCGYGALLDYLDARGFKTDYTGIDVSPEMVRAAALRFEGRANADFICAARIDREADYSVASGIFNVRLKSLDTEWCAHIEATLDMLNAASRRGFSFNCLTSYSDASKMRDDLYYADPCALFDLCKRRYSKSVALLHDYGLYEFTILVRKAS