tatC Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2093c · MTBC0 mtbc0_002227 · 308 aa · 2380727–2381653 (-) · RefSeq NP_216609.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)Sec-independent protein translocase transmembrane protein TatC
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationtwin-arginine translocase subunit TatC
Revised (this work)Twin-arginine translocase subunit TatC. Pfam: TatC (PF00902.24).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WG97 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameSec-independent protein translocase protein TatC
Curated functionPart of the twin-arginine translocation (Tat) system that transports large folded proteins containing a characteristic twin-arginine motif in their signal peptide across membranes. Together with TatB, TatC is part of a receptor directly interacting with Tat signal peptides.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category U Intracellular trafficking, secretion and vesicular transport
Preferred nametatC
eggNOG descriptionPart of the twin-arginine translocation (Tat) system that transports large folded proteins containing a characteristic twin-arginine motif in their signal peptide across membranes. Together with TatB, TatC is part of a receptor directly interacting with Tat signal peptides
Orthologous groupCOG0805
KEGG orthology K03118
KEGG pathways map03060, map03070
KEGG modules M00336
Gene Ontology (54) GO:0003674, GO:0005215, GO:0005575, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0005829, GO:0005886, GO:0006810, GO:0006886, GO:0008104, GO:0008150 +42 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 0.264 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 4 synonymous, 3 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
TatCPF00902.24 2.2e-6529–252 Sec-independent protein translocase protein (TatC)

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

Closest characterised functional partner: tatA (Sec-independent protein translocase membrane-bound protein TatA), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 983 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2094c tatA Sec-independent protein translocase membrane-bound protein TatA 994 983 ctx neighborhood:787 coexpression:706 experimental:629 textmining:668
Rv1224 tatB Sec-independent protein translocase protein TatB 984 930 coexpression:710 experimental:629 textmining:782
Rv2092c helY ATP-dependent DNA helicase HelY 821 822 ctx neighborhood:815
Rv2097c pafA proteasome accessory factor PafA 646 646 ctx neighborhood:641
Rv2091c membrane protein 624 624 ctx neighborhood:614
Rv2096c pafB proteasome accessory factor B 623 623 ctx neighborhood:611
Rv2095c pafC proteasome accessory factor C 616 617 ctx neighborhood:611
Rv0846c mmcO oxidase 637 564 experimental:563
Rv3396c guaA GMP synthase 494 495
Rv2109c prcA proteasome subunit alpha 494 492
Rv0529 ccsA cytochrome C-type biogenesis protein CcsA 532 471 ctx cooccurence:427
Rv2099c PE21 Rv2099c, (MTCY49.39c), len: 58 aa. PE21, Member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis PE family (see Brennan and Delogu, 2002); 5'-end of Rv2098 498 453 ctx neighborhood:450
Rv2098c PE_PGRS36 PE-PGRS family protein PE_PGRS36; Rv2098c, (MTCY49.38c), len: 434 aa. PE_PGRS36,Member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis PE family, PGRS sub 497 452 ctx neighborhood:450
Rv2110c prcB proteasome subunit beta 415 412
Rv2196 qcrB ubiquinol-cytochrome C reductase cytochrome subunit B 430 372

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: Sec-independent protein translocase transmembrane protein TatC
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: twin-arginine translocase subunit TatC
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): TatC PF00902.24 (E=2e-65)
  • (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_216609.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — TatC (PF00902.24)
  • 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 COG0805
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WG97 (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 — 52 functional partner(s); context anchor tatA
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_002227|Rv2093c|tatC
MRAAGLLKRLNPRNRRSRVNPDATMSLVDHLTELRTRLLISLAAILVTTIFGFVWYSHSIFGLDSLGEWLRHPYCALPQSARADISADGECRLLATAPFDQFMLRLKVGMAAGIVLACPVWFYQLWAFITPGLYQRERRFAVAFVIPAAVLFVAGAVLAYLVLSKALGFLLTVGSDVQVTALSGDRYFGFLLNLLVVFGVSFEFPLLIVMLNLAGLLTYERLKSWRRGLIFAMFVFAAIFTPGSDPFSMTALGAALTVLLELAIQIARVHDKRKAKREAAIPDDEASVIDPPSPVPAPSVIGSHDDVT