trpB Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1612 · MTBC0 - · 410 aa · 1811127–1812359 (+) · RefSeq NP_216128.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)tryptophan synthase subunit beta
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Tryptophan synthase subunit beta. Pfam: PALP (PF00291.32).

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 P9WFX9 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameTryptophan synthase beta chain
EC (curated) EC 4.2.1.20
Curated functionThe beta subunit is responsible for the synthesis of L-tryptophan from indole and L-serine.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category E Amino acid transport and metabolism
Preferred nametrpB
eggNOG descriptionThe beta subunit is responsible for the synthesis of L- tryptophan from indole and L-serine
Orthologous groupCOG0133
EC number EC 4.2.1.20
KEGG orthology K01696
KEGG pathways map00260, map00400, map01100, map01110, map01130, map01230
KEGG modules M00023
Gene Ontology (57) GO:0000162, GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0004834, GO:0005575, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0006082, GO:0006520, GO:0006568, GO:0006576 +45 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 0.253 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 4 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
PALPPF00291.32 6.4e-4866–391 Pyridoxal-phosphate dependent enzyme

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

Closest characterised functional partner: trpA (tryptophan synthase subunit alpha), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 1000 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1613 trpA tryptophan synthase subunit alpha 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:882 fusion:900 cooccurence:774 coexpression:979 experimental:999 database:900 textmining:843
Rv1611 trpC indole-3-glycerol phosphate synthase 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:793 fusion:856 cooccurence:774 coexpression:794 database:900 textmining:569
Rv1614 lgt prolipoprotein diacylglyceryl transferase 993 994 ctx neighborhood:882 coexpression:948
Rv1609 trpE anthranilate synthase component I 992 975 ctx neighborhood:721 cooccurence:728 coexpression:700 textmining:719
Rv2192c trpD anthranilate phosphoribosyltransferase 991 973 ctx cooccurence:772 coexpression:858 textmining:696
Rv0013 trpG anthranilate synthase component II 975 965 ctx cooccurence:708 coexpression:857
Rv1559 ilvA threonine dehydratase IlvA 949 934 database:900
Rv2386c mbtI salicylate synthase 953 925 ctx cooccurence:737 coexpression:691 textmining:411
Rv3042c serB2 phosphoserine phosphatase SerB 928 924 database:900
Rv1077 cbs cystathionine beta-synthase 909 904 database:900
Rv1093 glyA1 serine hydroxymethyltransferase 912 901 database:900
Rv0069c sdaA L-serine dehydratase 904 901 database:900
Rv0436c pssA CDP-diacylglycerol--serine O-phosphatidyltransferase 900 901 database:900
Rv0070c glyA2 serine hydroxymethyltransferase 912 900 database:900
Rv1005c pabB para-aminobenzoate synthase component I 898 888 ctx cooccurence:637 coexpression:692

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): tryptophan synthase subunit beta
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): PALP PF00291.32 (E=6e-48)
  • (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_216128.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — PALP (PF00291.32)
  • 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 COG0133
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WFX9 (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 — 70 functional partner(s); context anchor trpA
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv1612|trpB
MSAAIAEPTSHDPDSGGHFGGPSGWGGRYVPEALMAVIEEVTAAYQKERVSQDFLDDLDRLQANYAGRPSPLYEATRLSQHAGSARIFLKREDLNHTGSHKINNVLGQALLARRMGKTRVIAETGAGQHGVATATACALLGLDCVIYMGGIDTARQALNVARMRLLGAEVVAVQTGSKTLKDAINEAFRDWVANADNTYYCFGTAAGPHPFPTMVRDFQRIIGMEARVQIQGQAGRLPDAVVACVGGGSNAIGIFHAFLDDPGVRLVGFEAAGDGVETGRHAATFTAGSPGAFHGSFSYLLQDEDGQTIESHSISAGLDYPGVGPEHAWLKEAGRVDYRPITDSEAMDAFGLLCRMEGIIPAIESAHAVAGALKLGVELGRGAVIVVNLSGRGDKDVETAAKWFGLLGND