mce3B Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1967 · MTBC0 mtbc0_002083 · 342 aa · 2229718–2230746 (+) · RefSeq NP_216483.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)Mce family protein Mce3B
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationvirulence factor Mce family protein
Revised (this work)Virulence factor Mce family protein. Pfam: MlaD (PF02470.26), Mce4_CUP1 (PF11887.14).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt O53968 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Predicted
UniProt nameMce-family protein Mce3B

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category Q Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport and catabolism
Preferred namemce3B
eggNOG descriptionVirulence factor Mce family protein
Orthologous groupCOG1463
KEGG orthology K02067
KEGG pathways map02010
KEGG modules M00210, M00669, M00670

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 0.732 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 4 synonymous, 8 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
MlaDPF02470.26 1.6e-1938–114 MlaD protein
Mce4_CUP1PF11887.14 9.5e-29120–333 Cholesterol uptake porter CUP1 of Mce4, putative

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

Closest characterised functional partner: yrbE3B (integral membrane protein), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 996 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1965 yrbE3B integral membrane protein 996 996 ctx neighborhood:785 cooccurence:773 coexpression:881
Rv1964 yrbE3A integral membrane protein 995 995 ctx neighborhood:785 cooccurence:767 coexpression:863
Rv1971 mce3F Mce family protein Mce3F 996 993 ctx neighborhood:795 cooccurence:774 coexpression:860 textmining:566
Rv1966 mce3A Mce family protein Mce3A 997 992 ctx neighborhood:781 cooccurence:772 coexpression:860 textmining:673
Rv1970 lprM Mce family lipoprotein LprM 995 992 ctx neighborhood:781 cooccurence:774 coexpression:860 textmining:464
Rv1972 Mce associated membrane protein 984 985 ctx neighborhood:729 cooccurence:712 coexpression:822
Rv1968 mce3C Mce family protein Mce3C 986 979 ctx neighborhood:795 coexpression:860
Rv1969 mce3D Mce family protein Mce3D 983 977 ctx neighborhood:781 coexpression:860
Rv1973 Mce associated membrane protein 960 961 ctx neighborhood:714 cooccurence:502 coexpression:746
Rv0655 mkl ABC transporter ATP-binding protein 890 885 ctx cooccurence:764 experimental:431
Rv0588 yrbE2B hyp hypothetical protein 881 878 ctx cooccurence:771
Rv0168 yrbE1B membrane protein 910 874 ctx cooccurence:771
Rv0587 yrbE2A hyp hypothetical protein 876 872 ctx cooccurence:766
Rv3500c yrbE4B integral membrane protein 876 872 ctx cooccurence:772
Rv0167 yrbE1A membrane protein 902 870 ctx cooccurence:768

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: Mce family protein Mce3B
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: virulence factor Mce family protein
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): MlaD PF02470.26 (E=2e-19), Mce4_CUP1 PF11887.14 (E=1e-28)
  • (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_216483.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — MlaD (PF02470.26), Mce4_CUP1 (PF11887.14)
  • 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 COG1463
  • Curated reference: UniProt O53968 (TrEMBL, unreviewed; Predicted)
  • 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 — 42 functional partner(s); context anchor yrbE3B
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_002083|Rv1967|mce3B
MRENLGGVVVRLGVFLAVCLLTAFLLIAVFGEVRFGDGKTYYAEFANVSNLRTGKLVRIAGVEVGKVTRISINPDATVRVQFTADNSVTLTRGTRAVIRYDNLFGDRYLALEEGAGGLAVLRPGHTIPLARTQPALDLDALIGGFKPLFRALNPEQVNALSEQLLHAFAGQGPTIGSLLAQSAAVTNTLADRDRLIGQVITNLNVVLGSLGAHTDRLDQAVTSLSALIHRLAQRKTDISNAVAYTNAAAGSVADLLSQARAPLAKVVRETDRVAGIAAADHDYLDNLLNTLPDKYQALVRQGMYGDFFAFYLCDVVLKVNGKGGQPVYIKLAGQDSGRCAPK