epiA Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1512 · MTBC0 mtbc0_001619 · 322 aa · 1713902–1714870 (+) · RefSeq NP_216028.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)nucleotide-sugar epimerase EpiA
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationGDP-L-fucose synthase
Revised (this work)GDP-L-fucose synthase. Pfam: RmlD_sub_bind (PF04321.24), Epimerase (PF01370.28), GDP_Man_Dehyd (PF16363.12).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P71791 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameGDP-L-fucose synthase
EC (curated) EC 1.1.1.271
Curated functionCatalyzes the two-step NADP-dependent conversion of GDP-4-dehydro-6-deoxy-D-mannose to GDP-fucose, involving an epimerase and a reductase reaction.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category G Carbohydrate transport and metabolism
M Cell wall / membrane / envelope biogenesis
Preferred namefcl
eggNOG descriptionCatalyzes the two-step NADP-dependent conversion of GDP- 4-dehydro-6-deoxy-D-mannose to GDP-fucose, involving an epimerase and a reductase reaction
Orthologous groupCOG0451
EC number EC 1.1.1.271
KEGG orthology K02377
KEGG pathways map00051, map00520, map01100

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 0.185 · strong purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 4 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
RmlD_sub_bindPF04321.24 3.5e-0715–75 RmlD substrate binding domain
EpimerasePF01370.28 1.0e-6016–247 NAD dependent epimerase/dehydratase family
GDP_Man_DehydPF16363.12 1.2e-1548–271 GDP-mannose 4,6 dehydratase

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

Closest characterised functional partner: gmdA (GDP-D-mannose dehydratase GmdA), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 999 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1511 gmdA GDP-D-mannose dehydratase GmdA 999 999 ctx neighborhood:882 fusion:723 cooccurence:772 database:900 textmining:812
Rv0112 gca GDP-mannose 4,6-dehydratase 911 912 database:900
Rv1508A hyp hypothetical protein 880 875 ctx cooccurence:774
Rv1513 hyp hypothetical protein 978 839 ctx neighborhood:801 textmining:870
Rv0705 rpsS 30S ribosomal protein S19 817 817 experimental:463 database:574
Rv0682 rpsL 30S ribosomal protein S12 814 806 experimental:463 database:573
Rv0710 rpsQ 30S ribosomal protein S17 804 798 experimental:463 database:578
Rv0707 rpsC 30S ribosomal protein S3 803 796 experimental:463 database:578
Rv0721 rpsE 30S ribosomal protein S5 797 790 experimental:463 database:575
Rv0717 rpsN1 30S ribosomal protein S14 788 789 experimental:436 database:548
Rv2056c rpsN2 30S ribosomal protein S14 787 788 experimental:436 database:548
Rv0718 rpsH 30S ribosomal protein S8 793 786 experimental:463 database:578
Rv0700 rpsJ 30S ribosomal protein S10 790 786 experimental:463 database:557
Rv0702 rplD 50S ribosomal protein L4 787 781 experimental:463 database:575
Rv2785c rpsO 30S ribosomal protein S15 782 779 experimental:463 database:573

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: nucleotide-sugar epimerase EpiA
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: GDP-L-fucose synthase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): RmlD_sub_bind PF04321.24 (E=3e-07), Epimerase PF01370.28 (E=1e-60), GDP_Man_Dehyd PF16363.12 (E=1e-15)
  • (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_216028.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — RmlD_sub_bind (PF04321.24), Epimerase (PF01370.28), GDP_Man_Dehyd (PF16363.12)
  • 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 COG0451
  • Curated reference: UniProt P71791 (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 — 83 functional partner(s); context anchor gmdA
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_001619|Rv1512|epiA
MNAHTSVGPLDRAARVYIAGHRGLVGSALLRTFAGAGFTNLLVRSRAELDLTDRAATFDFVLESRPQVVIDAAARVGGILANDTYPADFLSENLQIQVNLLDAAVAARVPRLLFLGSSCIYPKLAPQPIPESALLTGPLEPTNDAYAIAKIAGILAVQAVRRQHGLPWISAMPTNLYGPGDNFSPSGSHLLPALIRRYDEAKASGAPNVTNWGTGTPRRELLHVDDLASACLYLLEHFDGPTHVNVGTGIDHTIGEIAEMVASAVGYSGETRWDPSKPDGTPRKLLDVSVLREAGWRPSIALRDGIEATVAWYREHAGTVRQ