helZ Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2101 · MTBC0 mtbc0_002234 · 1013 aa · 2388862–2391903 (+) · RefSeq NP_216617.2

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)helicase HelZ
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationDEAD/DEAH box helicase
Revised (this work)DEAD/DEAH box helicase. Pfam: DUF3670 (PF12419.14), SNF2-rel_dom (PF00176.30), Helicase_C (PF00271.38).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt I6YCF3 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameProbable helicase HelZ

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category K Transcription
L Replication, recombination and repair
Preferred namehelZ
eggNOG descriptionSNF2 family N-terminal domain
Orthologous groupCOG0553

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 0.433 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 15 synonymous, 17 missense, 1 nonsense, 3 frameshift
Disruption 4 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.60% of strains (867) · convergent

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
DUF3670PF12419.14 1.3e-41352–486 SNF2 Helicase protein
SNF2-rel_domPF00176.30 2.3e-67536–819 SNF2-related domain
Helicase_CPF00271.38 1.0e-20840–950 Helicase conserved C-terminal domain

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

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2102 hyp hypothetical protein 996 996 ctx neighborhood:767 fusion:899 cooccurence:771
Rv1390 rpoZ DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit omega 986 986 experimental:910 database:843
Rv3457c rpoA DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit alpha 986 985 experimental:905 database:841
Rv0667 rpoB DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit beta 983 982 experimental:912 database:806
Rv0668 rpoC DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit beta' 952 951 experimental:879 database:596
Rv2133c hyp hypothetical protein 922 915 experimental:832 database:485
Rv0002 dnaN DNA polymerase III subunit beta 920 912 experimental:769 database:614
Rv2116 lppK lipoprotein LppK 919 911 experimental:769 database:614
Rv3170 aofH flavin-containing monoamine oxidase 918 910 experimental:442 database:844
Rv1329c dinG ATP-dependent helicase DinG 942 869 database:812 textmining:578
Rv1629 polA DNA polymerase I 930 863 experimental:538 database:660 textmining:513
Rv2737c recA recombinase A 944 852 experimental:841 textmining:638
Rv1253 deaD ATP-dependent RNA helicase DeaD 844 824 experimental:434 database:621
Rv2090 5'-3' exonuclease 830 810 experimental:447 database:660
Rv3211 rhlE ATP-dependent RNA helicase RhlE 894 804 experimental:434 database:621 textmining:481

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: helicase HelZ
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: DEAD/DEAH box helicase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): DUF3670 PF12419.14 (E=1e-41), SNF2-rel_dom PF00176.30 (E=2e-67), Helicase_C PF00271.38 (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_216617.2)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — DUF3670 (PF12419.14), SNF2-rel_dom (PF00176.30), Helicase_C (PF00271.38)
  • 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 COG0553
  • Curated reference: UniProt I6YCF3 (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 — 111 functional partner(s)
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_002234|Rv2101|helZ
MLVLHGFWSNSGGMRLWAEDSDLLVKSPSQALRSARPHPFAAPADLIAGIHPGKPATAVLLLPSLRSAPLDSPELIRLAPRPAARTDPMLLAWTVPVVDLDPTAALAAFDQPAPDVRYGASVDYLAELAVFARELVERGRVLPQLRRDTHGAAACWRPVLQGRDVVAMTSLVSAMPPVCRAEVGGHDPHELATSALDAMVDAAVRAALSPMDLLPPRRGRSKRHRAVEAWLTALTCPDGRFDAEPDELDALAEALRPWDDVGIGTVGPARATFRLSEVETENEETPAGSLWRLEFLLQSTQDPSLLVPAEQAWNDDGSLRRWLDRPQELLLTELGRASRIFPELVPALRTACPSGLELDADGAYRFLSGTAAVLDEAGFGVLLPSWWDRRRKLGLVLSAYTPVDGVVGKASKFGREQLVEFRWELAVGDDPLSEEEIAALTETKSPLIRLRGQWVALDTEQLRRGLEFLERKPTGRKTTAEILALAASHPDDVDTPLEVTAVRADGWLGDLLAGAAAASLQPLDPPDGFTATLRPYQQRGLAWLAFLSSLGLGSCLADDMGLGKTVQLLALETLESVQRHQDRGVGPTLLLCPMSLVGNWQQEAARFAPNLRVYAHHGGARLHGEALRDHLERTDLVVSTYTTATRDIDELAEYEWNRVVLDEAQAVKNSLSRAAKAVRRLRAAHRVALTGTPMENRLAELWSIMDFLNPGLLGSSERFRTRYAIPIERHGHTEPAERLRASTRPYILRRLKTDPAIIDDLPEKIEIKQYCQLTTEQASLYQAVVADMMEKIENTEGIERRGNVLAAMAKLKQVCNHPAQLLHDRSPVGRRSGKVIRLEEILEEILAEGDRVLCFTQFTEFAELLVPHLAARFGRAARDIAYLHGGTPRKRRDEMVARFQSGDGPPIFLLSLKAGGTGLNLTAANHVVHLDRWWNPAVENQATDRAFRIGQRRTVQVRKFICTGTLEEKIDEMIEEKKALADLVVTDGEGWLTELSTRDLREVFALSEGAVGE