glnE Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2221c · MTBC0 mtbc0_002358 · 994 aa · 2515526–2518510 (-) · RefSeq NP_216737.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)[glutamate--ammonia-ligase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationbifunctional [glutamine synthetase] adenylyltransferase/[glutamine synthetase]-adenylyl-L-tyrosine phosphorylase
Revised (this work)Bifunctional [glutamine synthetase] adenylyltransferase/[glutamine synthetase]-adenylyl-L-tyrosine phosphorylase. Pfam: GlnD_UR_UTase (PF08335.17), GlnE (PF03710.22).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WN27 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameBifunctional glutamine synthetase adenylyltransferase/adenylyl-removing enzyme
EC (curated) EC 2.7.7.42, EC 2.7.7.89
Curated functionInvolved in the regulation of glutamine synthetase GlnA, a key enzyme in the process to assimilate ammonia. When cellular nitrogen levels are high, the C-terminal adenylyl transferase (AT) inactivates GlnA by covalent transfer of an adenylyl group from ATP to specific tyrosine residue of GlnA, thus reducing its activity. Conversely, when nitrogen levels are low, the N-terminal adenylyl removase (AR) activates GlnA by removing the adenylyl group by phosphorolysis, increasing its activity. The regulatory region of GlnE binds the signal transduction protein PII (GlnB) which indicates the nitrogen.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category H Coenzyme transport and metabolism
Preferred nameglnE
eggNOG descriptionInvolved in the regulation of glutamine synthetase GlnA, a key enzyme in the process to assimilate ammonia. When cellular nitrogen levels are high, the C-terminal adenylyl transferase (AT) inactivates GlnA by covalent transfer of an adenylyl group from ATP to specific tyrosine residue of GlnA, thus reducing its activity. Conversely, when nitrogen levels are low, the N-terminal adenylyl removase (AR) activates GlnA by removing the adenylyl group by phosphorolysis, increasing its activity. The regulatory region of GlnE binds the signal transduction protein PII (GlnB) which indicates the nitrogen status of the cell
Orthologous groupCOG1391
EC number EC 2.7.7.42, EC 2.7.7.89
KEGG orthology K00982
Gene Ontology (38) GO:0000820, GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0005575, GO:0005618, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0005829, GO:0005886, GO:0006521, GO:0008150 +26 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 0.274 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 12 synonymous, 9 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
GlnD_UR_UTasePF08335.17 1.7e-27337–483 GlnD PII-uridylyltransferase
GlnEPF03710.22 1.3e-74589–828 Glutamate-ammonia ligase adenylyltransferase

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

Closest characterised functional partner: glnA2 (glutamine synthetase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 818 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2222c glnA2 glutamine synthetase 975 818 ctx neighborhood:815 textmining:869
Rv2223c caeB carboxylesterase B 747 737 ctx neighborhood:734
Rv2050 rbpA RNA polymerase-binding protein RbpA 708 709 ctx cooccurence:706
Rv2224c caeA carboxylesterase A 707 693 ctx neighborhood:693
Rv2681 hyp hypothetical protein 691 691 ctx cooccurence:690
Rv2220 glnA1 glutamine synthetase 973 639 ctx cooccurence:617 textmining:930
Rv1830 HTH-type transcriptional regulator 639 639 ctx cooccurence:637
Rv2699c hyp hypothetical protein 627 628 ctx cooccurence:624
Rv2219 transmembrane protein 594 594 ctx cooccurence:575
Rv2413c hyp hypothetical protein 590 590 ctx cooccurence:588
Rv3859c gltB glutamate synthase large subunit 763 548 ctx neighborhood:544 textmining:498
Rv0807 hyp hypothetical protein 541 541 ctx cooccurence:470
Rv1440 secG protein-export membrane protein SecG 536 537 ctx cooccurence:534
Rv2696c hyp hypothetical protein 533 534 ctx cooccurence:512
Rv2680 hyp hypothetical protein 518 518 ctx cooccurence:515

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: [glutamate--ammonia-ligase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: bifunctional [glutamine synthetase] adenylyltransferase/[glutamine synthetase]-adenylyl-L-tyrosine phosphorylase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): GlnD_UR_UTase PF08335.17 (E=2e-27), GlnE PF03710.22 (E=1e-74)
  • (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_216737.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — GlnD_UR_UTase (PF08335.17), GlnE (PF03710.22)
  • 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 COG1391
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WN27 (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 — 39 functional partner(s); context anchor glnA2
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_002358|Rv2221c|glnE
MVVTKLATQRPKLPSVGRLGLVDPPAGERLAQLGWDRHEDQAHVDLLWSLSRAPDADAALRALIRLSENPDTGWDELNAALLRERSLRGRLFSVLGSSLALGDHLVAHPQSWKLLRGKVTLPSHDQLQRSFVECVEESEGMPGSLVHRLRTQYRDYVLMLAALDLAATVEDEPVLPFTVVAARLADAADAALAAALRVAEASVCGEHPPPRLAVIAMGKCGARELNYVSDVDVIFVAERSDPRNARVASEMMRVASAAFFEVDAALRPEGRNGELVRTLESHIAYYQRWAKTWEFQALLKARPVVGDAELGERYLTALMPMVWRACEREDFVVEVQAMRRRVEQLVPADVRGRELKLGSGGLRDVEFAVQLLQLVHARSDESLRVASTVDALAALGEGGYIGREDAANMTASYEFLRLLEHRLQLQRLKRTHLLPDPEDEEAVRWLARAAHIRPDGRNDAAGVLREELKKQNVRVSKLHTKLFYQPLLESIGPTGLEIAHGMTLEAAGRRLAALGYEGPQTALKHMSALVNQSGRRGRVQSVLLPRLLDWMSYAPDPDGGLLAYRRLSEALATESWYLATLRDKPAVAKRLMHVLGTSAYVPDLLMRAPRVIQQYEDGPAGPKLLETEPAAVARALIASASRYPDPERAIAGARTLRRRELARIGSADLLGLLEVTEVCRALTSVWVAVLQAALDVMIRASLPDDDRAPAAIAVIGMGRLGGAELGYGSDADVMFVCEPATGVDDARAVKWSTSIAERVRALLGTPSVDPPLELDANLRPEGRNGPLVRTLGSYAAYYEQWAQPWEIQALLRAHAVAGDAELGQRFLRMVDKTRYPPDGVSADSVREIRRIKARIESERLPRGADPNTHTKLGRGGLADIEWTVQLLQLQHAHQVPALHNTSTLQSLDVIAAADLVPAADVELLRQAWLTATRARNALVLVRGKPTDQLPGPGRQLNAVAVAAGWRNDDGGEFLDNYLRVTRRAKAVVRKVFGS