qcrB Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2196 · MTBC0 mtbc0_002332 · 549 aa · 2485685–2487334 (+) · RefSeq NP_216712.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)ubiquinol-cytochrome C reductase cytochrome subunit B
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationcytochrome bc complex cytochrome b subunit
Revised (this work)Cytochrome bc complex cytochrome b subunit. Pfam: Cytochrome_B (PF00033.25), Cytochrom_B_N_2 (PF13631.12).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WP37 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameCytochrome bc1 complex cytochrome b subunit
EC (curated) EC 7.1.1.8
Curated functionCytochrome b subunit of the cytochrome bc1 complex, an essential component of the respiratory electron transport chain required for ATP synthesis. The bc1 complex catalyzes the oxidation of ubiquinol and the reduction of cytochrome c in the respiratory chain. The bc1 complex operates through a Q-cycle mechanism that couples electron transfer to generation of the proton gradient that drives ATP synthesis. The cytochrome b subunit contains two ubiquinol reactive sites: the oxidation (QP) site and the reduction (QN) site.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category C Energy production and conversion
Preferred nameqcrB
eggNOG descriptionCytochrome b
Orthologous groupCOG1290
KEGG orthology K03891
KEGG pathways map00190, map01100
KEGG modules M00151
Gene Ontology (14) GO:0005575, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0005887, GO:0008150, GO:0016020, GO:0016021, GO:0031224, GO:0031226, GO:0040007, GO:0044425, GO:0044459 +2 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 1.002 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 2 synonymous, 6 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
Cytochrome_BPF00033.25 3.9e-2345–235 Cytochrome b/b6/petB
Cytochrom_B_N_2PF13631.12 1.1e-64120–294 Cytochrome b(N-terminal)/b6/petB

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

Closest characterised functional partner: ctaE (cytochrome C oxidase subunit III), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 1000 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2193 ctaE cytochrome C oxidase subunit III 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:822 cooccurence:699 coexpression:958 experimental:999 textmining:831
Rv2194 qcrC ubiquinol-cytochrome C reductase cytochrome subunit C 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:881 cooccurence:773 coexpression:816 experimental:999 database:900 textmining:933
Rv2199c ctaF cytochrome c oxidase polypeptide 4 999 1000 ctx cooccurence:768 coexpression:533 experimental:999 textmining:490
Rv2195 qcrA ubiquinol-cytochrome C reductase rieske iron-sulfur subunit 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:881 cooccurence:772 coexpression:983 experimental:999 database:984 textmining:909
Rv3043c ctaD cytochrome C oxidase cytochrome 1 999 1000 ctx cooccurence:604 coexpression:858 experimental:999 textmining:762
Rv2200c ctaC cytochrome C oxidase subunit II 999 1000 ctx cooccurence:718 coexpression:857 experimental:999 textmining:846
Rv2876 transmembrane protein 999 999 experimental:999
Rv0432 sodC superoxide dismutase 997 997 experimental:997
Rv2782c pepR zinc protease 989 989 experimental:928 database:844
Rv0863 hyp hypothetical protein 987 987 experimental:987
Rv3157 nuoM NADH-quinone oxidoreductase subunit M 988 984 coexpression:840 experimental:902
Rv3152 nuoH NADH-quinone oxidoreductase subunit H 987 984 coexpression:855 experimental:894
Rv3153 nuoI NADH-quinone oxidoreductase subunit I 974 967 coexpression:655 experimental:903
Rv1304 atpB ATP synthase subunit A 972 964 coexpression:964
Rv3158 nuoN NADH-quinone oxidoreductase subunit N 968 959 coexpression:654 experimental:886

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: ubiquinol-cytochrome C reductase cytochrome subunit B
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: cytochrome bc complex cytochrome b subunit
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Cytochrome_B PF00033.25 (E=4e-23), Cytochrom_B_N_2 PF13631.12 (E=1e-64)
  • (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_216712.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Cytochrome_B (PF00033.25), Cytochrom_B_N_2 (PF13631.12)
  • 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 COG1290
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WP37 (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 — 161 functional partner(s); context anchor ctaE
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_002332|Rv2196|qcrB
MSPKLSPPNIGEVLARQAEDIDTRYHPSAALRRQLNKVFPTHWSFLLGEIALYSFVVLLITGVYLTLFFDPSMVDVTYNGVYQPLRGVEMSRAYQSALDISFEVRGGLFVRQIHHWAALMFAAAIMVHLARIFFTGAFRRPRETNWVIGSLLLILAMFEGYFGYSLPDDLLSGLGLRAALSSITLGMPVIGTWLHWALFGGDFPGTILIPRLYALHILLLPGIILALIGLHLALVWFQKHTQFPGPGRTEHNVVGVRVMPVFAFKSGAFFAAIVGVLGLMGGLLQINPIWNLGPYKPSQVSAGSQPDFYMMWTEGLARIWPPWEFYFWHHTIPAPVWVAVIMGLVFVLLPAYPFLEKRFTGDYAHHNLLQRPRDVPVRTAIGAMAIAFYMVLTLAAMNDIIALKFHISLNATTWIGRIGMVILPPFVYFITYRWCIGLQRSDRSVLEHGVETGIIKRLPHGAYIELHQPLGPVDEHGHPIPLQYQGAPLPKRMNKLGSAGSPGSGSFLFADSAAEDAALREAGHAAEQRALAALREHQDSIMGSPDGEH