asnB Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2201 · MTBC0 mtbc0_002337 · 652 aa · 2491154–2493112 (+) · RefSeq NP_216717.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)asparagine synthetase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationasparagine synthase (glutamine-hydrolyzing)
Revised (this work)Asparagine synthase (glutamine-hydrolyzing). Pfam: GATase_6 (PF13522.12), GATase_7 (PF13537.12), Asn_synthase (PF00733.28).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WN33 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt namePutative asparagine synthetase [glutamine-hydrolyzing]
EC (curated) EC 6.3.5.4

UniProt still lists this protein as Putative asparagine synthetase [glutamine-hydrolyzing]; the revised annotation above is ahead of the current UniProt record.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category E Amino acid transport and metabolism
Preferred nameasnB
eggNOG descriptionAsparagine synthase
Orthologous groupCOG0367
EC number EC 6.3.5.4
KEGG orthology K01953
KEGG pathways map00250, map01100, map01110
Gene Ontology (14) GO:0005575, GO:0005576, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0005829, GO:0005886, GO:0008150, GO:0016020, GO:0040007, GO:0044424, GO:0044444 +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 0.343 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 3 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
GATase_6PF13522.12 8.2e-3338–176 Glutamine amidotransferase domain
GATase_7PF13537.12 5.7e-3859–181 Glutamine amidotransferase domain
Asn_synthasePF00733.28 1.7e-109262–631 Asparagine synthase

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

Closest characterised functional partner: ctaC (cytochrome C oxidase subunit II), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 743 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1658 argG argininosuccinate synthase 925 915 database:900
Rv1380 pyrB aspartate carbamoyltransferase 922 910 database:900
Rv0357c purA adenylosuccinate synthetase 930 909 database:900
Rv1538c ansA L-aparaginase 914 901 database:900
Rv1595 nadB L-aspartate oxidase 903 900 database:900
Rv3709c ask aspartokinase 898 882 coexpression:402 database:800
Rv3432c gadB glutamate decarboxylase GadB 812 801 database:800
Rv3601c panD aspartate 1-decarboxylase 801 801 database:800
Rv2200c ctaC cytochrome C oxidase subunit II 743 743 ctx neighborhood:742
Rv2199c ctaF cytochrome c oxidase polypeptide 4 729 730 ctx neighborhood:728
Rv3859c gltB glutamate synthase large subunit 648 569 ctx neighborhood:544
Rv2197c transmembrane protein 473 473 ctx neighborhood:470
Rv2179c 3'-5' exoribonuclease 470 470 ctx cooccurence:467
Rv0948c chorismate mutase 484 457 ctx cooccurence:454
Rv2357c glyS glycine--tRNA ligase 465 443

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: asparagine synthetase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: asparagine synthase (glutamine-hydrolyzing)
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): GATase_6 PF13522.12 (E=8e-33), GATase_7 PF13537.12 (E=6e-38), Asn_synthase PF00733.28 (E=2e-109)
  • (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_216717.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — GATase_6 (PF13522.12), GATase_7 (PF13537.12), Asn_synthase (PF00733.28)
  • 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 COG0367
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WN33 (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 — 34 functional partner(s); context anchor ctaC
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_002337|Rv2201|asnB
MCGLLAFVAAPAGAAGPEGADAASAIARASHLMRHRGPDESGTWHAVDGASGGVVFGFNRLSIIDIAHSHQPLRWGPPEAPDRYVLVFNGEIYNYLELRDELRTQHGAVFATDGDGEAILAGYHHWGTEVLQRLRGMFAFALWDTVTRELFCARDPFGIKPLFIATGAGGTAVASEKKCLLDLVELVGFDTEIDHRALQHYTVLQYVPEPETLHRGVRRLESGCFARIRADQLAPVITRYFVPRFAASPITNDNDQARYDEITAVLEDSVAKHMRADVTVGAFLSGGIDSTAIAALAIRHNPRLITFTTGFEREGFSEIDVAVASAEAIGARHIAKVVSADEFVAALPEIVWYLDEPVADPALVPLFFVAREARKHVKVVLSGEGADELFGGYTIYREPLSLRPFDYLPKPLRRSMGKVSKPLPEGMRGKSLLHRGSLTLEERYYGNARSFSGAQLREVLPGFRPDWTHTDVTAPVYAESAGWDPVARMQHIDLFTWLRGDILVKADKITMANSLELRVPFLDPEVFAVASRLPAGAKITRTTTKYALRRALEPIVPAHVLHRPKLGFPVPIRHWLRAGELLEWAYATVGSSQAGHLVDIAAVYRMLDEHRCGSSDHSRRLWTMLIFMLWHAIFVEHSVVPQISEPQYPVQL