blaC Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2068c · MTBC0 - · 307 aa · 2325886–2326809 (-) · RefSeq NP_216584.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)beta-lactamase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Beta-lactamase. Pfam: Beta-lactamase2 (PF13354.13), Beta-lactamase (PF00144.30).

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 P9WKD3 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameBeta-lactamase
EC (curated) EC 3.5.2.6
Curated functionExtended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) that inactivates beta-lactam antibiotics by hydrolyzing the amide group of the beta-lactam ring. Displays high levels of penicillinase and cephalosporinase activity as well as measurable activity with carbapenems, including imipenem and meropenem. Plays a primary role in the intrinsic resistance of M.tuberculosis to beta-lactam antibiotics.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category V Defense mechanisms
Preferred nameblaC
eggNOG descriptionbeta-lactamase
Orthologous groupCOG2367
EC number EC 3.5.2.6
KEGG orthology K17836
KEGG pathways map00311, map01130, map01501
KEGG modules M00627, M00628
Gene Ontology (47) GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0005575, GO:0005576, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0006807, GO:0008150, GO:0008152, GO:0008800, GO:0009056, GO:0009308 +35 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 0.119 · strong purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 3 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
Beta-lactamase2PF13354.13 1.7e-4444–299 Beta-lactamase enzyme family
Beta-lactamasePF00144.30 1.4e-2050–298 Beta-lactamase

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

Closest characterised functional partner: sigC (ECF RNA polymerase sigma factor SigC), medium confidence from genomic context alone (score 655 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2067c hyp hypothetical protein 778 777 ctx neighborhood:772
Rv2069 sigC ECF RNA polymerase sigma factor SigC 663 655 ctx neighborhood:589
Rv2782c pepR zinc protease 546 547 ctx neighborhood:544
Rv2783c gpsI bifunctional guanosine pentaphosphate synthetase/polyribonucleotide nucleotidyltransferase 478 478 ctx neighborhood:473
Rv3044 fecB FeIII-dicitrate-binding periplasmic lipoprotein 442 254
Rv3364c hyp hypothetical protein 706 195 textmining:651
Rv1923 lipD lipase LipD 705 182 textmining:655
Rv1497 lipL esterase LipL 525 166 textmining:455
Rv3354 hyp hypothetical protein 464 62 textmining:453
Rv3775 lipE lipase LipE 406 57
Rv3627c dacB hyp hypothetical protein 411 54 textmining:403
Rv3763 lpqH lipoprotein LpqH 541 49 textmining:538
Rv3677c beta lactamase 460 49 textmining:456
Rv1922 lipoprotein 400 48
Rv0406c beta lactamase-like protein 531 46 textmining:529

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): beta-lactamase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Beta-lactamase2 PF13354.13 (E=2e-44), Beta-lactamase PF00144.30 (E=1e-20)
  • (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_216584.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Beta-lactamase2 (PF13354.13), Beta-lactamase (PF00144.30)
  • 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 COG2367
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WKD3 (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 — 19 functional partner(s); context anchor sigC
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv2068c|blaC
MRNRGFGRRELLVAMAMLVSVTGCARHASGARPASTTLPAGADLADRFAELERRYDARLGVYVPATGTTAAIEYRADERFAFCSTFKAPLVAAVLHQNPLTHLDKLITYTSDDIRSISPVAQQHVQTGMTIGQLCDAAIRYSDGTAANLLLADLGGPGGGTAAFTGYLRSLGDTVSRLDAEEPELNRDPPGDERDTTTPHAIALVLQQLVLGNALPPDKRALLTDWMARNTTGAKRIRAGFPADWKVIDKTGTGDYGRANDIAVVWSPTGVPYVVAVMSDRAGGGYDAEPREALLAEAATCVAGVLA