lipT Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2045c · MTBC0 - · 511 aa · 2289685–2291220 (-) · RefSeq NP_216561.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)carboxylesterase LipT
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Carboxylesterase LipT. Pfam: COesterase (PF00135.35), BD-FAE (PF20434.6), Abhydrolase_3 (PF07859.20).

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 O53488 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameCarboxylic ester hydrolase
EC (curated) EC 3.1.1.-

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category I Lipid transport and metabolism
Preferred namelipT
eggNOG descriptionBelongs to the type-B carboxylesterase lipase family
Orthologous groupCOG2272
KEGG orthology K03929
CAZy family CE10

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 0.57 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 3 synonymous, 5 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
COesterasePF00135.35 3.4e-9519–490 Carboxylesterase family
BD-FAEPF20434.6 2.1e-1299–227 BD-FAE
Abhydrolase_3PF07859.20 2.4e-06174–231 alpha/beta hydrolase fold

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

Closest characterised functional partner: lppI (lipoprotein LppI), medium confidence from genomic context alone (score 679 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2044c hyp hypothetical protein 785 785 ctx neighborhood:782
Rv1389 gmk guanylate kinase 745 735 database:608
Rv2681 hyp hypothetical protein 732 733 experimental:417 database:558
Rv1770 hyp hypothetical protein 715 700 database:587
Rv3458c rpsD 30S ribosomal protein S4 700 700 database:632
Rv0418 lpqL lipoprotein aminopeptidase LpqL 711 696 database:587
Rv3459c rpsK 30S ribosomal protein S11 684 684 database:624
Rv2046 lppI lipoprotein LppI 678 679 ctx neighborhood:674
Rv3211 rhlE ATP-dependent RNA helicase RhlE 669 653 database:594
Rv1253 deaD ATP-dependent RNA helicase DeaD 668 652 database:594
Rv1630 rpsA 30S ribosomal protein S1 640 641 database:636
Rv0710 rpsQ 30S ribosomal protein S17 634 635 database:516
Rv1340 rphA ribonuclease PH 600 596 database:543
Rv0718 rpsH 30S ribosomal protein S8 593 594 database:516
Rv0682 rpsL 30S ribosomal protein S12 592 592 database:491

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): carboxylesterase LipT
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): COesterase PF00135.35 (E=3e-95), BD-FAE PF20434.6 (E=2e-12), Abhydrolase_3 PF07859.20 (E=2e-06)
  • (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_216561.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — COesterase (PF00135.35), BD-FAE (PF20434.6), Abhydrolase_3 (PF07859.20)
  • 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 COG2272
  • Curated reference: UniProt O53488 (TrEMBL, unreviewed; 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 — 61 functional partner(s); context anchor lppI
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv2045c|lipT
MALESATVGSMHERTVRARTATGIVEGFTRDGVHRWRSIPYARAPVGSLRFRAPQPAQPWPGVRHCHTFANCAPQQRRYTVMGIGRYQTRSEDCLTLNVVTPEEPATQPLPVMVFIHGGGYILGSSATPIYDGAALARRGCVYVSVNYRLGALGCLDLSSLSTPQITLDSNVYLRDLVLALRWVHDNIAEFGGDPGNVTIFGESAGAHITATLLAVPAAKGLFARAISESPAAGMVRSREVAAEFAARFANLIGARTQDAANALMQASPAQLVEAQHHLIRQGMRKRLGAFPIGPVFGDDYLPMDPVEAMRSGRVHAVPLIVGTNAEEGRLFTRFLGMLPTNEPMVEELLSGMKPADRERITAAYPNYPAPSACIQLGGDFAFSSAAWQIAEAHGANAPTYLYRYDYAPRTLRWSGFGATHATELFAVFDIYRTRFGALLTAAADRRAALRVSNEVQRRWRCFSQIGVPGDDWPAYTQDDRAVLVFDRRCRIEFDPHQHRRIAWDGFSLAN