Rv2134c Still unknown · low

H37Rv Rv2134c · MTBC0 - · 195 aa · 2394650–2395237 (-) · RefSeq NP_216650.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)hypothetical protein
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Conserved hypothetical; function unknown. Structure-based hint rejected: weak fold hit (DUF3090); function unknown.

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 O06241 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameConserved protein

UniProt still lists this protein as Conserved protein; the revised annotation above is ahead of the current UniProt record.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category S Function unknown
eggNOG descriptionProtein of unknown function (DUF3090)
Orthologous group298YA

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 0.359 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 2 synonymous, 2 missense, 0 nonsense, 2 frameshift
Disruption 2 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.26% of strains (379) · 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
DUF3090PF11290.14 2.0e-696–175 Protein of unknown function (DUF3090)

Structural neighbours (Foldseek on the ESMFold model, exploratory)

ESMFold model confidence: mean pLDDT 84.3 (confident). A confident model makes the fold comparison meaningful.

Best matches against the PDB, ranked by Foldseek homology probability. A high probability / TM-score suggests a shared fold; unless flagged sig (E < 0.01) these are fold hypotheses, not assignments.

TargetProbTME-valueDescription
3k44-assembly1_A 0.99 0.52 5.6e-03 sig 3k44-assembly1_A Crystal Structure of Drosophila melanogaster Pur-alpha
6l4l-assembly1_A 0.20 0.28 1.1e-01 6l4l-assembly1_A Crystal structure of S. aureus CntK in inactive state
3p0c-assembly3_B-2 0.15 0.41 4.0e-01 3p0c-assembly3_B-2 Nischarin PX-domain
6jis-assembly1_A-2 0.15 0.27 2.3e-01 6jis-assembly1_A-2 Crystal structure of the histidine racemase CntK in cobalt and nickel transporter system of staphylococcus aureus
6koi-assembly8_O 0.13 0.40 7.8e-01 6koi-assembly8_O Crystal structure of SNX11-PXe domain in dimer form.
6jiw-assembly1_A-2 0.12 0.28 3.2e-01 6jiw-assembly1_A-2 Crystal structure of S. aureus CntK with C72S mutation
3p0c-assembly3_A 0.10 0.38 8.3e-01 3p0c-assembly3_A Nischarin PX-domain
4a9c-assembly1_A 0.10 0.37 9.9e-01 4a9c-assembly1_A Crystal structure of human SHIP2 in complex with biphenyl 2,3',4,5',6- pentakisphosphate

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

Closest characterised functional partner: uppP (undecaprenyl-diphosphatase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 807 excluding text-mining). This association is the citable seed of a function hypothesis for this hypothetical protein.

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2133c hyp hypothetical protein 975 975 ctx neighborhood:879 cooccurence:773
Rv2135c hyp hypothetical protein 933 934 ctx neighborhood:800 cooccurence:677
Rv2136c uppP undecaprenyl-diphosphatase 806 807 ctx neighborhood:800
Rv2137c hyp hypothetical protein 743 743 ctx neighborhood:741
Rv2130c mshC cysteine:1D-myo-inosityl 2-amino-2-deoxy--D-glucopyranoside ligase 723 723 ctx neighborhood:544
Rv1170 mshB 1D-myo-inositol 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-alpha-D-glucopyranoside deacetylase 615 615 ctx cooccurence:613
Rv2131c cysQ 3'(2'),5'-bisphosphate nucleotidase CysQ 563 563 ctx neighborhood:544
Rv1082 mca mycothiol S-conjugate amidase 514 515 ctx cooccurence:509
Rv0819 mshD mycothiol acetyltransferase 455 455 ctx cooccurence:447
Rv2138 lppL lipoprotein LppL 437 437 ctx neighborhood:433
Rv2466c hyp hypothetical protein 440 419 ctx cooccurence:416
Rv3753c hyp hypothetical protein 411 412 ctx cooccurence:405

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

  • Structural Foldseek hit not propagated -- weak fold hit (DUF3090); function unknown
  • Reviewed against literature (extended structural cross-check, 2026-06-02)

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_216650.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — DUF3090 (PF11290.14)
  • 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 298YA
  • Curated reference: UniProt O06241 (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)
  • Model confidence: ESMFold per-residue pLDDT (mean 84.3, confident)
  • Interaction network: STRING v12.0 (Szklarczyk et al. 2023, doi:10.1093/nar/gkac1000), taxon 83332, CC-BY 4.0 — 12 functional partner(s); context anchor uppP
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv2134c|
MARAIHVFRTPDRFVAGTVGQPGNRTFYLQAVHDSRVVSVVLEKQQVAVLAERIGALLFEVNRRFGTPVPPEPTEIDDLSPLIMPVDAEFRVGTMGLGWDSEAQSVVVELLAVTDAEFDASVVLDDTEEGPDAVRVFLTPESARQFATRSYRVISAGRPPCPLCDEPLDPEGHICARTNGYRRDVLLGSGDDPAG