ureG Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1852 · MTBC0 mtbc0_001965 · 224 aa · 2118378–2119052 (+) · RefSeq NP_216368.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)urease accessory protein UreG
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationurease accessory protein UreG
Revised (this work)Urease accessory protein UreG. Pfam: cobW (PF02492.26).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WFE3 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameUrease accessory protein UreG
Curated functionFacilitates the functional incorporation of the urease nickel metallocenter. This process requires GTP hydrolysis, probably effectuated by UreG.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category K Transcription
O Post-translational modification, protein turnover, chaperones
Preferred nameureG
eggNOG descriptionFacilitates the functional incorporation of the urease nickel metallocenter. This process requires GTP hydrolysis, probably effectuated by UreG
Orthologous groupCOG0378
KEGG orthology K03189
Gene Ontology (8) GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0003924, GO:0016462, GO:0016787, GO:0016817, GO:0016818, GO:0017111

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 0.366 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 1 synonymous, 1 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
cobWPF02492.26 7.4e-3728–197 CobW/HypB/UreG, nucleotide-binding domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: ureF (urease accessory protein UreF), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 997 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1851 ureF urease accessory protein UreF 999 997 ctx neighborhood:874 coexpression:871 experimental:810 textmining:625
Rv0087 hycE formate hydrogenase HycE 995 992 experimental:989 textmining:439
Rv1850 ureC urease subunit alpha 997 991 ctx neighborhood:874 cooccurence:774 coexpression:722 textmining:692
Rv1848 ureA urease subunit gamma 993 991 ctx neighborhood:874 cooccurence:774 coexpression:716
Rv1849 ureB urease subunit beta 996 989 ctx neighborhood:874 cooccurence:774 coexpression:656 textmining:704
Rv1853 ureD urease accessory protein UreD 992 983 ctx neighborhood:882 coexpression:728 experimental:446 textmining:590
Rv1847 esterase 712 713 ctx neighborhood:712
Rv0073 glutamine ABC transporter ATP-binding protein 450 393
Rv2564 glnQ glutamine ABC transporter ATP-binding protein 449 391
Rv1843c guaB1 inosine-5'-monophosphate dehydrogenase 474 313
Rv3419c gcp O-sialoglycoprotein endopeptidase 931 78 textmining:929
Rv1862 adhA alcohol dehydrogenase A 414 55 textmining:406
Rv2362c recO DNA repair protein RecO 410 49 textmining:406

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: urease accessory protein UreG
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: urease accessory protein UreG
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): cobW PF02492.26 (E=7e-37)
  • (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_216368.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — cobW (PF02492.26)
  • 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 COG0378
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WFE3 (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 — 13 functional partner(s); context anchor ureF
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_001965|Rv1852|ureG
MATHSHPHSHTVPARPRRVRKPGEPLRIGVGGPVGSGKTALVAALCRQLRGELSLAVLTNDIYTTEDADFLRTHAVLPDDRIAAVQTGGCPHTAIRDDITANLDAIDELMAAHDALDLILVESGGDNLTATFSSGLVDAQIFVIDVAGGDKVPRKGGPGVTYSDLLVVNKTDLAALVGADLAVMARDADAVRDGRPTVLQSLTEDPAASDVVAWVRSQLAADGV