cobM Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2071c · MTBC0 mtbc0_002205 · 251 aa · 2356835–2357590 (-) · RefSeq NP_216587.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)precorrin-4 C(11)-methyltransferase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationprecorrin-4 C(11)-methyltransferase
Revised (this work)Precorrin-4 C(11)-methyltransferase. Pfam: TP_methylase (PF00590.26).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WGB1 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt namePrecorrin-4 C(11)-methyltransferase
EC (curated) EC 2.1.1.133
Curated functionCatalyzes the methylation of C-11 in precorrin-4 to form precorrin-5.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category H Coenzyme transport and metabolism
Preferred namecobM
eggNOG descriptionBelongs to the precorrin methyltransferase family
Orthologous groupCOG2875
EC number EC 2.1.1.133, EC 2.1.1.271
KEGG orthology K05936
KEGG pathways map00860, map01100

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 0.232 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 5 synonymous, 3 missense, 0 nonsense, 1 frameshift
Disruption 1 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.17% of strains (243) · 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
TP_methylasePF00590.26 5.5e-472–209 Tetrapyrrole (Corrin/Porphyrin) Methylases

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

Closest characterised functional partner: cobIJ (bifunctional S-adenosyl-L-methionine-precorrin-2 methyl transferase/precorrin-3 methylase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 1000 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2066 cobIJ bifunctional S-adenosyl-L-methionine-precorrin-2 methyl transferase/precorrin-3 methylase 999 1000 ctx cooccurence:765 coexpression:999 database:900 textmining:554
Rv2072c cobL precorrin-6Y C(5,15)-methyltransferase 999 998 ctx neighborhood:881 cooccurence:735 coexpression:924 textmining:888
Rv2070c cobK precorrin-6A reductase 998 994 ctx neighborhood:881 cooccurence:740 coexpression:818 textmining:753
Rv2065 cobH precorrin-8X methylmutase 979 959 ctx cooccurence:772 coexpression:799 textmining:511
Rv0255c cobQ1 cobyric acid synthase 957 944 ctx cooccurence:724 coexpression:774
Rv2848c cobB cobyrinic acid A,C-diamide synthase 940 879 ctx cooccurence:771 coexpression:406 textmining:533
Rv2073c oxidoreductase 805 805 ctx neighborhood:796
Rv2236c cobD cobalamin biosynthesis transmembrane protein CobD 835 785 ctx cooccurence:749
Rv2208 cobS adenosylcobinamide-GDP ribazoletransferase 819 764 ctx cooccurence:563 coexpression:410
Rv2074 pyridoxamine 5'-phosphate oxidase 732 732 ctx neighborhood:731
Rv0510 hemC porphobilinogen deaminase 749 714 ctx fusion:414 cooccurence:492
Rv2423 hyp hypothetical protein 721 684 coexpression:666
Rv2207 cobT nicotinate-nucleotide-dimethylbenzimidazol phosphoribosyltransferase 747 669 ctx cooccurence:568
Rv0254c cobU bifunctional cobinamide kinase/cobinamide phosphate guanylyltransferase 954 634 ctx cooccurence:461 textmining:880
Rv0512 hemB delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase 622 569 ctx cooccurence:532

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: precorrin-4 C(11)-methyltransferase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: precorrin-4 C(11)-methyltransferase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): TP_methylase PF00590.26 (E=6e-47)
  • (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_216587.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — TP_methylase (PF00590.26)
  • 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 COG2875
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WGB1 (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 — 35 functional partner(s); context anchor cobIJ
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_002205|Rv2071c|cobM
MTVYFIGAGPGAADLITVRGQRLLQRCPVCLYAGSIMPDDLLAQCPPGATIVDTGPLTLEQIVRKLADADADGRDVARLHSGDPSLYSALAEQCRELDALGIGYEIVPGVPAFAAAAAALKRELTVPGVAQTVTLTRVATLSTPMPPGEDLAALARSRATLVLHLAAAQIDAIVPRLLDGGYRPETPVAVVAFASWPQQRTLRGTLADIAARMHDAKITRTAVIVVGDVLTAEGFTDSYLYSVARHGRYAQ