prcA Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2109c · MTBC0 mtbc0_002241 · 248 aa · 2396246–2396992 (-) · RefSeq NP_216625.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)proteasome subunit alpha
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationproteasome subunit alpha
Revised (this work)Proteasome subunit alpha. Pfam: Proteasome (PF00227.32).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WHU1 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameProteasome subunit alpha
Curated functionComponent of the proteasome core, a large protease complex with broad specificity involved in protein degradation. The M.tuberculosis proteasome is able to cleave oligopeptides not only after hydrophobic but also after basic, acidic and small neutral residues. In complex with the ATPase Mpa, degrades protein targets conjugated to a prokaryotic ubiquitin-like protein (Pup). Among the identified substrates of the M.tuberculosis proteasome are the pupylated FabD, PanB and Mpa proteins. One function of the proteasome is to contribute to M.tuberculosis ability to resist killing by host macrophages,.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category O Post-translational modification, protein turnover, chaperones
Preferred nameprcA
eggNOG descriptionComponent of the proteasome core, a large protease complex with broad specificity involved in protein degradation
Orthologous groupCOG0638
EC number EC 3.4.25.1
KEGG orthology K03432
KEGG pathways map03050
KEGG modules M00342, M00343
Gene Ontology (55) GO:0000502, GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0004175, GO:0004298, GO:0005575, GO:0005618, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005839, GO:0005886, GO:0006508 +43 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 0.334 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 5 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
ProteasomePF00227.32 8.4e-2226–204 Proteasome subunit

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

Closest characterised functional partner: prcB (proteasome subunit beta), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 1000 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2110c prcB proteasome subunit beta 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:881 cooccurence:774 coexpression:751 experimental:999 database:900 textmining:948
Rv2115c mpa proteasome-associated ATPase 999 1000 ctx cooccurence:757 experimental:999 database:662 textmining:657
Rv2111c pup ubiquitin-like protein Pup 998 997 ctx neighborhood:881 cooccurence:750 experimental:898 textmining:684
Rv3780 bpa hyp hypothetical protein 981 976 ctx cooccurence:766 experimental:900
Rv2112c dop pup deamidase/depupylase 979 939 ctx neighborhood:766 cooccurence:739 textmining:673
Rv2097c pafA proteasome accessory factor PafA 985 934 ctx neighborhood:539 fusion:473 cooccurence:744 textmining:782
Rv1334 mec [CysO 937 929 experimental:786 database:662
Rv3696c glpK glycerol kinase 936 928 experimental:791 database:662
Rv3868 eccA1 ESX-1 secretion system protein EccA1 760 746 experimental:406 database:537
Rv0282 eccA3 ESX-3 secretion system protein EccA 756 742 experimental:406 database:537
Rv0435c ATPase 756 741 experimental:406 database:537
Rv3884c eccA2 ESX-2 secretion system protein EccA 754 739 experimental:406 database:537
Rv2555c alaS alanine--tRNA ligase 651 652 database:601
Rv0983 pepD serine protease PepD 645 628 database:562
Rv1223 htrA serine protease HtrA 645 628 database:562

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: proteasome subunit alpha
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: proteasome subunit alpha
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Proteasome PF00227.32 (E=8e-22)
  • (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_216625.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Proteasome (PF00227.32)
  • 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 COG0638
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WHU1 (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 — 65 functional partner(s); context anchor prcB
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_002241|Rv2109c|prcA
MSFPYFISPEQAMRERSELARKGIARAKSVVALAYAGGVLFVAENPSRSLQKISELYDRVGFAAAGKFNEFDNLRRGGIQFADTRGYAYDRRDVTGRQLANVYAQTLGTIFTEQAKPYEVELCVAEVAHYGETKPPELYRITYDGSIADEPHFVVMGGTTEPIANALKESYAENASLTDALGIAVAALRAGSADTSGGDQPTLGVASLEVAVLDANRPRRAFRRITGSALQALLVDQESPQSDGESSG