Rv2137c Still unknown · low auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2137c · MTBC0 - · 137 aa · 2396902–2397315 (-) · RefSeq NP_216653.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)hypothetical protein
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Conserved hypothetical protein; no recognised domain. Function unknown. Foldseek best (non-significant) hit: 6hhm-assembly1_A Crystal structure of the family S1_7 ulvan-specific s (prob 0.63, TM 0.66).

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

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 O06238 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameUncharacterized protein

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

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

Orthologous group2B14F

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 0.508 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 2 synonymous, 1 missense, 2 nonsense, 0 frameshift
Disruption 2 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.56% of strains (810) · 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)

No Pfam-A domain above the gathering threshold (or not yet scanned).

Structural neighbours (Foldseek on the ESMFold model, exploratory)

ESMFold model confidence: mean pLDDT 52.8 (low). Low-confidence model: the fold may be unreliable, so treat these structural hits with caution.

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
6hhm-assembly1_A 0.63 0.66 7.8e-01 6hhm-assembly1_A Crystal structure of the family S1_7 ulvan-specific sulfatase FA22070 from Formosa agariphila
5c8b-assembly1_B 0.57 0.59 5.2e-01 5c8b-assembly1_B Structural insights into the redesign of a sucrose phosphorylase by induced loop repositioning
8ceo-assembly1_p 0.20 0.56 2.4e+00 8ceo-assembly1_p Yeast RNA polymerase II transcription pre-initiation complex with core Mediator and the +1 nucleosome
6ioz-assembly1_A 0.16 0.55 3.4e+00 6ioz-assembly1_A Structural insights of idursulfase beta
3a24-assembly1_A 0.15 0.50 1.6e+00 3a24-assembly1_A Crystal structure of BT1871 retaining glycosidase
5man-assembly1_B 0.14 0.59 4.3e+00 5man-assembly1_B Structure of sucrose phosphorylase from Bifidobacterium adolescentis bound to nigerose
4xf2-assembly2_Y 0.13 0.48 1.6e+00 4xf2-assembly2_Y Tetragonal structure of Arp2/3 complex
5fql-assembly1_A-2 0.12 0.52 4.1e+00 5fql-assembly1_A-2 Insights into Hunter syndrome from the structure of iduronate-2- sulfatase

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

Closest characterised functional partner: uppP (undecaprenyl-diphosphatase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 801 excluding text-mining). This association is the citable seed of a function hypothesis for this hypothetical protein.

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2136c uppP undecaprenyl-diphosphatase 841 801 ctx neighborhood:800
Rv2135c hyp hypothetical protein 800 801 ctx neighborhood:800
Rv2134c hyp hypothetical protein 743 743 ctx neighborhood:741
Rv2133c hyp hypothetical protein 741 742 ctx neighborhood:740
Rv2138 lppL lipoprotein LppL 591 591 ctx neighborhood:591
Rv2130c mshC cysteine:1D-myo-inosityl 2-amino-2-deoxy--D-glucopyranoside ligase 546 547 ctx neighborhood:544
Rv2131c cysQ 3'(2'),5'-bisphosphate nucleotidase CysQ 545 546 ctx neighborhood:544
Rv2139 pyrD dihydroorotate dehydrogenase 400 400
Rv2694c hyp hypothetical protein 629 44 textmining:628
Rv3848 transmembrane protein 490 44 textmining:489
Rv1909c furA ferric uptake regulation protein FurA 480 44 textmining:479

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

  • Annotation from H37Rv (no MTBC0 1:1 anchor; H37Rv protein used): hypothetical protein
  • Foldseek best: 6hhm-assembly1_A Crystal structure of the family S1_7 ulvan-specific sulfatase F (prob 0.63, E=8e-01, TM=0.66)
  • (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_216653.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — none above threshold
  • 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 2B14F
  • Curated reference: UniProt O06238 (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 52.8, low)
  • Interaction network: STRING v12.0 (Szklarczyk et al. 2023, doi:10.1093/nar/gkac1000), taxon 83332, CC-BY 4.0 — 11 functional partner(s); context anchor uppP
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv2137c|
MRNMKSTSHESESGKLLSISSCRPREMVLQRYSLGMTVTADRHLADKREEFAVEDISTGIFASGYGQVGDGRSFSFHIEHRSLVVEIYRPRVAGPVPQAEDVVAMAVRGLVDIDLTDERSLAAAVRDSVASAAPVSR