argJ Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1653 · MTBC0 mtbc0_001762 · 404 aa · 1878673–1879887 (+) · RefSeq NP_216169.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)bifunctional glutamate N-acetyltransferase/amino-acid acetyltransferase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationbifunctional glutamate N-acetyltransferase/amino-acid acetyltransferase ArgJ
Revised (this work)Bifunctional glutamate N-acetyltransferase/amino-acid acetyltransferase ArgJ. Pfam: ArgJ (PF01960.24).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WPZ3 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameArginine biosynthesis bifunctional protein ArgJ [Cleaved into: Arginine biosynthesis bifunctional protein ArgJ alpha chain; Arginine biosynthesis bifunctional protein ArgJ beta chain] [Includes: Glutamate N-acetyltransferase
EC (curated) EC 2.3.1.1, EC 2.3.1.35
Curated functionCatalyzes two activities which are involved in the cyclic version of arginine biosynthesis: the synthesis of N-acetylglutamate from glutamate and acetyl-CoA as the acetyl donor, and of ornithine by transacetylation between N(2)-acetylornithine and glutamate.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category E Amino acid transport and metabolism
Preferred nameargJ
eggNOG descriptionCatalyzes two activities which are involved in the cyclic version of arginine biosynthesis the synthesis of N- acetylglutamate from glutamate and acetyl-CoA as the acetyl donor, and of ornithine by transacetylation between N(2)-acetylornithine and glutamate
Orthologous groupCOG1364
EC number EC 2.3.1.1, EC 2.3.1.35
KEGG orthology K00620
KEGG pathways map00220, map01100, map01110, map01130, map01210, map01230
KEGG modules M00028
Gene Ontology (46) GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0004042, GO:0004358, GO:0005575, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0006082, GO:0006520, GO:0006525, GO:0006526 +34 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 0.212 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 7 synonymous, 4 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
ArgJPF01960.24 3.5e-13023–404 ArgJ family

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

Closest characterised functional partner: argB (acetylglutamate kinase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 1000 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1654 argB acetylglutamate kinase 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:881 fusion:463 cooccurence:770 coexpression:976 database:900 textmining:948
Rv1655 argD acetylornithine aminotransferase 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:881 cooccurence:571 coexpression:948 database:900 textmining:949
Rv1656 argF ornithine carbamoyltransferase 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:881 cooccurence:489 coexpression:942 database:900 textmining:781
Rv1652 argC N-acetyl-gamma-glutamyl-phoshate reductase 999 999 ctx neighborhood:881 cooccurence:736 coexpression:984 textmining:876
Rv1657 argR arginine repressor 999 998 ctx neighborhood:881 coexpression:985 textmining:931
Rv1658 argG argininosuccinate synthase 995 991 ctx neighborhood:812 coexpression:946 textmining:551
Rv1659 argH argininosuccinate lyase 994 983 ctx neighborhood:783 coexpression:894 textmining:679
Rv2747 argA L-glutamate alpha-N-acetyltranferase 989 937 database:900 textmining:845
Rv0337c aspC aspartate aminotransferase 913 906 database:900
Rv0428c GCN5-like N-acetyltransferase 940 905 database:900
Rv2476c gdh NAD-dependent glutamate dehydrogenase 901 901 database:900
Rv2321c rocD2 Rv2321c, (MTCY3G12.13), len: 181 aa. Probable rocD2,ornithine aminotransferase, highly similar to C-terminal region of other ornithine amino 813 737 coexpression:643
Rv2322c rocD1 Rv2322c, (MTCY3G12.12), len: 221 aa. Probable rocD1,ornithine aminotransferase, highly similar to N-terminal region of other ornithine amino 800 719 coexpression:644
Rv1599 hisD histidinol dehydrogenase 688 592 coexpression:466
Rv1650 pheT phenylalanine--tRNA ligase subunit beta 548 549 ctx neighborhood:544

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: bifunctional glutamate N-acetyltransferase/amino-acid acetyltransferase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: bifunctional glutamate N-acetyltransferase/amino-acid acetyltransferase ArgJ
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): ArgJ PF01960.24 (E=3e-130)
  • (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_216169.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — ArgJ (PF01960.24)
  • 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 COG1364
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WPZ3 (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 — 43 functional partner(s); context anchor argB
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_001762|Rv1653|argJ
MTDLAGTTRLLRAQGVTAPAGFRAAGVAAGIKASGALDLALVFNEGPDYAAAGVFTRNQVKAAPVLWTQQVLTTGRLRAVILNSGGANACTGPAGFADTHATAEAVAAALSDWGTETGAIEVAVCSTGLIGDRLPMDKLLAGVAHVVHEMHGGLVGGDEAAHAIMTTDNVPKQVALHHHDNWTVGGMAKGAGMLAPSLATMLCVLTTDAAAEPAALERALRRAAAATFDRLDIDGSCSTNDTVLLLSSGASEIPPAQADLDEAVLRVCDDLCAQLQADAEGVTKRVTVTVTGAATEDDALVAARQIARDSLVKTALFGSDPNWGRVLAAVGMAPITLDPDRISVSFNGAAVCVHGVGAPGAREVDLSDADIDITVDLGVGDGQARIRTTDLSHAYVEENSAYSS