nadA Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1594 · MTBC0 - · 349 aa · 1794756–1795805 (+) · RefSeq NP_216110.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)quinolinate synthetase A
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Quinolinate synthetase A. Pfam: NadA (PF02445.22).

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 P9WJK1 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameQuinolinate synthase
EC (curated) EC 2.5.1.72
Curated functionCatalyzes the condensation of iminoaspartate with dihydroxyacetone phosphate to form quinolinate.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category H Coenzyme transport and metabolism
Preferred namenadA
eggNOG descriptionCatalyzes the condensation of iminoaspartate with dihydroxyacetone phosphate to form quinolinate
Orthologous groupCOG0379
EC number EC 2.5.1.72
KEGG orthology K03517
KEGG pathways map00760, map01100
KEGG modules M00115
Gene Ontology (83) GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0005488, GO:0005575, GO:0005618, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0005829, GO:0006082, GO:0006139, GO:0006520 +71 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 1.016 · 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
NadAPF02445.22 8.8e-10937–341 Quinolinate synthetase A protein

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

Closest characterised functional partner: nadB (L-aspartate oxidase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 1000 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1595 nadB L-aspartate oxidase 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:881 cooccurence:769 coexpression:966 experimental:446 database:900 textmining:944
Rv1596 nadC nicotinate-nucleotide pyrophosphatase 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:881 cooccurence:773 coexpression:881 database:900 textmining:965
Rv1593c hyp hypothetical protein 889 883 ctx neighborhood:788 cooccurence:443
Rv2335 cysE serine acetyltransferase 732 732 coexpression:711
Rv1389 gmk guanylate kinase 688 687 coexpression:669
Rv2448c valS valine--tRNA ligase 667 667 ctx fusion:652
Rv1597 hyp hypothetical protein 657 644 ctx neighborhood:641
Rv3859c gltB glutamate synthase large subunit 546 546 ctx neighborhood:544
Rv3025c iscS cysteine desulfurase 576 506 coexpression:418
Rv1589 bioB biotin synthetase 537 447 coexpression:415
Rv1592c hyp hypothetical protein 408 408 ctx neighborhood:401
Rv1570 bioD ATP-dependent dethiobiotin synthetase BioD 478 400
Rv1409 ribG bifunctional riboflavin biosynthesis diaminohydroxyphosphoribosylaminopyrimidine deaminase/5-amino-6-(5-phosphoribosylamino) uracil reductas 564 291 textmining:411
Rv2438c nadE glutamine-dependent NAD(+) synthetase 859 257 textmining:818
Rv1631 coaE dephospho-CoA kinase CoaE 569 169 textmining:503

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): quinolinate synthetase A
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): NadA PF02445.22 (E=9e-109)
  • (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_216110.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — NadA (PF02445.22)
  • 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 COG0379
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WJK1 (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 — 41 functional partner(s); context anchor nadB
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv1594|nadA
MTVLNRTDTLVDELTADITNTPLGYGGVDGDERWAAEIRRLAHLRGATVLAHNYQLPAIQDVADHVGDSLALSRVAAEAPEDTIVFCGVHFMAETAKILSPHKTVLIPDQRAGCSLADSITPDELRAWKDEHPGAVVVSYVNTTAAVKALTDICCTSSNAVDVVASIDPDREVLFCPDQFLGAHVRRVTGRKNLHVWAGECHVHAGINGDELADQARAHPDAELFVHPECGCATSALYLAGEGAFPAERVKILSTGGMLEAAHTTRARQVLVATEVGMLHQLRRAAPEVDFRAVNDRASCKYMKMITPAALLRCLVEGADEVHVDPGIAASGRRSVQRMIEIGHPGGGE