plsB1 Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1551 · MTBC0 mtbc0_001657 · 621 aa · 1765256–1767121 (+) · RefSeq NP_216067.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)acyltransferase PlsB
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationlysophospholipid acyltransferase
Revised (this work)Lysophospholipid acyltransferase. Pfam: Acyltransferase (PF01553.27), GPAT_C (PF19277.5).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WI59 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt namePutative acyltransferase plsB1

UniProt still lists this protein as Putative acyltransferase plsB1; the revised annotation above is ahead of the current UniProt record.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category I Lipid transport and metabolism
Preferred nameplsB1
eggNOG descriptionBelongs to the GPAT DAPAT family
Orthologous groupCOG2937
EC number EC 2.3.1.15
KEGG orthology K00631
KEGG pathways map00561, map00564, map01100, map01110
KEGG modules M00089
Gene Ontology (8) GO:0005575, GO:0005618, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0016020, GO:0030312, GO:0044464, GO:0071944

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 0.482 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 8 synonymous, 11 missense, 0 nonsense, 3 frameshift
Disruption 3 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 26.26% of strains (38129) · 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
AcyltransferasePF01553.27 5.2e-09106–241 Acyltransferase
GPAT_CPF19277.5 3.0e-69252–586 Glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase C-terminal region

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

Closest characterised functional partner: fadD11 (fatty-acid--CoA ligase FadD11), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 971 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1550 fadD11 fatty-acid--CoA ligase FadD11 972 971 ctx neighborhood:812 coexpression:853
Rv2482c plsB2 glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase 926 922 database:900
Rv2982c gpdA2 glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase 940 904 database:900 textmining:409
Rv0564c gpdA1 glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase 940 904 database:900 textmining:409
Rv2182c 1-acylglycerol-3-phosphate O-acyltransferase 908 904 database:900
Rv3302c glpD2 glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase 915 902 database:900
Rv2249c glpD1 glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase 907 902 database:900
Rv1692 phosphatase 900 901 database:900
Rv3696c glpK glycerol kinase 913 900 database:900
Rv1549 fadD11.1 Possible fatty-acid-CoA ligase FadD11.1 (fatty-acid-CoA synthetase) (fatty-acid-CoA synthase); Rv1549, (MTCY48.16c), len: 175 aa. Possible f 843 835 ctx neighborhood:771
Rv0104 hyp hypothetical protein 770 762 coexpression:762
Rv2483c plsC bifunctional L-3-phosphoserine phosphatase/1-acyl-sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase 821 711 ctx cooccurence:664 textmining:407
Rv2484c diacyglycerol O-acyltransferase 772 694 ctx cooccurence:649
Rv1552 frdA fumarate reductase flavoprotein subunit 692 692 ctx neighborhood:439 coexpression:474
Rv0441c hyp hypothetical protein 697 684 database:549

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: acyltransferase PlsB
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: lysophospholipid acyltransferase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Acyltransferase PF01553.27 (E=5e-09), GPAT_C PF19277.5 (E=3e-69)
  • (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_216067.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Acyltransferase (PF01553.27), GPAT_C (PF19277.5)
  • 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 COG2937
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WI59 (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 — 55 functional partner(s); context anchor fadD11
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_001657|Rv1551|plsB1
MTAREVGRIGLRKLLQRIGIVAESMTPLATDPVEVTQLLDARWYDERLRALADELGRDPDSVRAEAAGYLREMAASLDERAVQAWRGFSRWLMRAYDVLVDEDQITQLRKLDRKATLAFAFSHRSYLDGMLLPEAILANRLSPALTFGGANLNFFPMGAWAKRTGAIFIRRQTKDIPVYRFVLRAYAAQLVQNHVNLTWSIEGGRTRTGKLRPPVFGILRYITDAVDEIDGPEVYLVPTSIVYDQLHEVEAMTTEAYGAVKRPEDLRFLVRLARQQGERLGRAYLDFGEPLPLRKRLQEMRADKSGTGSEIERIALDVEHRINRATPVTPTAVVSLALLGADRSLSISEVLATVRPLASYIAARNWAVAGAADLTNRSTIRWTLHQMVASGVVSVYDAGTEAVWGIGEDQHLVAAFYRNTAIHILVDRAVAELALLAAAETTTNGSVSPATVRDEALSLRDLLKFEFLFSGRAQFEKDLANEVLLIGSVVDTSKPAAAADVWRLLESADVLLAHLVLRPFLDAYHIVADRLAAHEDDSFDEEGFLAECLQVGKQWELQRNIASAESRSMELFKTALRLARHRELVDGADATDIAKRRQQFADEIATATRRVNTIAELARRQ