lprJ Resolved · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1690 · MTBC0 mtbc0_001798 · 127 aa · 1927542–1927925 (+) · RefSeq NP_216206.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)lipoprotein LprJ
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationlipoprotein LprJ
Revised (this work)Lipoprotein LprJ.

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt O33192 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt namePutative lipoprotein LprJ
Curated functionOverexpression induces expression of sensor protein kdpD gene at low K(+) concentrations (0 and 250 uM, tested in M.smegatis).

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

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category S Function unknown
Preferred namelprJ
eggNOG descriptionProtein of unknown function (DUF732)
Orthologous group2EPYI
Gene Ontology (6) GO:0005575, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0016020, 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 0.0 · strong purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 2 synonymous, 0 missense, 0 nonsense, 2 frameshift
Disruption 2 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 7.89% of strains (11457) · 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
DUF732PF05305.20 3.3e-1247–114 Protein of unknown function (DUF732)

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

Closest characterised functional partner: Rv1692 (phosphatase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 741 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1691 hyp hypothetical protein 744 744 ctx neighborhood:740
Rv1692 phosphatase 741 741 ctx neighborhood:741
Rv1693 hyp hypothetical protein 735 735 ctx neighborhood:732
Rv1695 ppnK inorganic polyphosphate/ATP-NAD kinase 734 734 ctx neighborhood:732
Rv1694 tlyA 16S/23S rRNA (cytidine-2'-O)-methyltransferase TlyA 732 733 ctx neighborhood:732
Rv0888 spmT hyp hypothetical protein 687 687 coexpression:687
Rv1696 recN DNA repair protein RecN 668 668 ctx neighborhood:668
Rv1689 tyrS tyrosine--tRNA ligase 543 512 ctx neighborhood:509
Rv1469 ctpD cobalt/nickel-exporting P-type ATPase 457 458 coexpression:458
Rv1697 steA hyp hypothetical protein 441 440 ctx neighborhood:435
Rv1698 mctB copper transporter MctB 409 409 ctx neighborhood:403
Rv3675 membrane protein 535 212 textmining:435
Rv3717 hyp hypothetical protein 541 53 textmining:536
Rv1028A kdpF membrane protein KdpF 545 50 textmining:541
Rv1368 lprF lipoprotein LprF 652 49 textmining:649

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: lipoprotein LprJ
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: lipoprotein LprJ
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): DUF732 PF05305.20 (E=3e-12)
  • (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_216206.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — DUF732 (PF05305.20)
  • 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 2EPYI
  • Curated reference: UniProt O33192 (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 — 17 functional partner(s); context anchor Rv1692
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_001798|Rv1690|lprJ
MTAHTHDGTRTWRTGRQATTLLALLAGVFGGAASCAAPIQADMMGNAFLTALTNAGIAYDQPATTVALGRSVCPMVVAPGGTFESITSRMAEINGMSRDMASTFTIVAIGTYCPAVIAPLMPNRLQA