ftsZ Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2150c · MTBC0 mtbc0_002286 · 379 aa · 2435764–2436903 (-) · RefSeq NP_216666.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)cell division protein FtsZ
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationcell division protein FtsZ
Revised (this work)Cell division protein FtsZ. Pfam: Tubulin (PF00091.32), FtsZ_C (PF12327.14).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WN95 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameCell division protein FtsZ
Curated functionEssential cell division protein that forms a contractile ring structure (Z ring) at the future cell division site. The regulation of the ring assembly controls the timing and the location of cell division. One of the functions of the FtsZ ring is to recruit other cell division proteins to the septum to produce a new cell wall between the dividing cells. Binds GTP and shows GTPase activity.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category D Cell cycle control, cell division, chromosome partitioning
Preferred nameftsZ
eggNOG descriptionEssential cell division protein that forms a contractile ring structure (Z ring) at the future cell division site. The regulation of the ring assembly controls the timing and the location of cell division. One of the functions of the FtsZ ring is to recruit other cell division proteins to the septum to produce a new cell wall between the dividing cells. Binds GTP and shows GTPase activity
Orthologous groupCOG0206
KEGG orthology K03531
KEGG pathways map04112
Gene Ontology (74) GO:0000166, GO:0000287, GO:0000910, GO:0000921, GO:0000935, GO:0001882, GO:0001883, GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0003924, GO:0005488, GO:0005525 +62 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 0.513 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 2 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
TubulinPF00091.32 7.5e-4911–169 Tubulin/FtsZ family, GTPase domain
FtsZ_CPF12327.14 3.0e-35219–313 FtsZ family, C-terminal domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: sepF (cell division protein SepF), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 987 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2147c sepF cell division protein SepF 997 987 ctx neighborhood:812 coexpression:664 experimental:814 textmining:842
Rv2153c murG UDP-N-acetylglucosamine--N-acetylmuramyl-(pentapeptide) pyrophosphoryl-undecaprenol-N-acetylglucosamine transferase 981 908 ctx neighborhood:566 cooccurence:416 experimental:563 textmining:801
Rv2148c hyp hypothetical protein 901 892 ctx neighborhood:879
Rv2149c yfiH laccase domain-containing protein 899 886 ctx neighborhood:879
Rv2154c ftsW lipid II flippase FtsW 997 872 ctx neighborhood:566 experimental:563 textmining:978
Rv2146c transmembrane protein 850 844 ctx neighborhood:569 coexpression:652
Rv2152c murC UDP-N-acetylmuramate--alanine ligase 953 795 ctx neighborhood:566 textmining:784
Rv2151c ftsQ cell division protein FtsQ 991 764 ctx neighborhood:566 coexpression:478 textmining:965
Rv2158c murE UDP-N-acetylmuramoylalanyl-D-glutamate--2,6-diaminopimelate ligase 908 760 ctx neighborhood:561 textmining:635
Rv2157c murF UDP-N-acetylmuramoyl-tripeptide--D-alanyl-D-alanine ligase 876 748 ctx neighborhood:561 textmining:529
Rv2156c murX phospho-N-acetylmuramoyl-pentappeptidetransferase 762 731 ctx neighborhood:561
Rv2155c murD UDP-N-acetylmuramoylalanine--D-glutamate ligase 923 719 ctx neighborhood:561 textmining:738
Rv1308 atpA ATP synthase subunit alpha 730 647 coexpression:646
Rv2163c pbpB penicillin-binding membrane protein PbpB 987 615 ctx neighborhood:505 textmining:969
Rv3012c gatC glutamyl-tRNA(GLN) amidotransferase subunit C 657 606 coexpression:606

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: cell division protein FtsZ
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: cell division protein FtsZ
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Tubulin PF00091.32 (E=7e-49), FtsZ_C PF12327.14 (E=3e-35)
  • (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_216666.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Tubulin (PF00091.32), FtsZ_C (PF12327.14)
  • 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 COG0206
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WN95 (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 — 172 functional partner(s); context anchor sepF
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_002286|Rv2150c|ftsZ
MTPPHNYLAVIKVVGIGGGGVNAVNRMIEQGLKGVEFIAINTDAQALLMSDADVKLDVGRDSTRGLGAGADPEVGRKAAEDAKDEIEELLRGADMVFVTAGEGGGTGTGGAPVVASIARKLGALTVGVVTRPFSFEGKRRSNQAENGIAALRESCDTLIVIPNDRLLQMGDAAVSLMDAFRSADEVLLNGVQGITDLITTPGLINVDFADVKGIMSGAGTALMGIGSARGEGRSLKAAEIAINSPLLEASMEGAQGVLMSIAGGSDLGLFEINEAASLVQDAAHPDANIIFGTVIDDSLGDEVRVTVIAAGFDVSGPGRKPVMGETGGAHRIESAKAGKLTSTLFEPVDAVSVPLHTNGATLSIGGDDDDVDVPPFMRR