caeB Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2223c · MTBC0 mtbc0_002360 · 520 aa · 2519994–2521556 (-) · RefSeq NP_216739.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)carboxylesterase B
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationcarboxylesterase CaeB
Revised (this work)Carboxylesterase CaeB. Pfam: Abhydrolase_1 (PF00561.27), Abhydrolase_4 (PF08386.17).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WHR5 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameCarboxylesterase B
EC (curated) EC 3.1.1.-

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category S Function unknown
Preferred namecaeA
eggNOG descriptionAlpha beta hydrolase
Orthologous groupCOG0596
Gene Ontology (9) GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0005575, GO:0005618, GO:0005623, GO:0016787, GO:0030312, GO:0044464, GO:0071944

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 0.291 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 7 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
Abhydrolase_1PF00561.27 3.3e-41106–494 alpha/beta hydrolase fold
Abhydrolase_4PF08386.17 1.3e-21420–518 TAP-like protein

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

Closest characterised functional partner: glnA2 (glutamine synthetase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 781 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2222c glnA2 glutamine synthetase 785 781 ctx neighborhood:776
Rv2221c glnE [glutamate--ammonia-ligase 747 737 ctx neighborhood:734
Rv2224c caeA carboxylesterase A 648 638 ctx neighborhood:618
Rv2256c hyp hypothetical protein 557 558 ctx cooccurence:551
Rv1527c pks5 polyketide synthase 529 501 experimental:441
Rv3825c pks2 phthioceranic/hydroxyphthioceranic acid synthase 529 501 experimental:441
Rv2940c mas multifunctional mycocerosic acid synthase 527 500 experimental:441
Rv2048c pks12 polyketide synthase 526 498 experimental:441
Rv2933 ppsC phthiocerol synthesis polyketide synthase type I PpsC 526 498 experimental:441
Rv2946c pks1 polyketide synthase 486 455
Rv0312 hyp hypothetical protein 465 451
Rv1181 pks4 polyketide beta-ketoacyl synthase 452 428
Rv1661 pks7 polyketide synthase 451 426
Rv3313c add adenosine deaminase 417 417 coexpression:417
Rv1663 pks17 polyketide synthase 433 412

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: carboxylesterase B
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: carboxylesterase CaeB
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Abhydrolase_1 PF00561.27 (E=3e-41), Abhydrolase_4 PF08386.17 (E=1e-21)
  • (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_216739.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Abhydrolase_1 (PF00561.27), Abhydrolase_4 (PF08386.17)
  • 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 COG0596
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WHR5 (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 glnA2
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_002360|Rv2223c|caeB
MAAMWRRRPLSSALLSFGLLLGGLPLAAPPLAGATEEPGAGQTPGAPVVAPQQSWNSCREFIADTSEIRTARCATVSVPVDYDQPGGTQAKLAVIRVPATGQRFGALLVNPGGPGASAVDMVAAMAPAIADTDILRHFDLVGFDPRGVGHSTPALRCRTDAEFDAYRRDPMADYSPAGVTHVEQVYRQLAQDCVDRMGFSFLANIGTASVARDMDMVRQALGDDQINYLGYSYGTELGTAYLERFGTHVRAMVLDGAIDPAVSPIEESISQMAGFQTAFNDYAADCARSPACPLGTDSAQWVNRYHALVDPLVQKPGKTSDPRGLSYADATTGTINALYSPQRWKYLTSGLLGLQRGSDAGDLLVLADDYDGRDADGHYSNDQDAFNAVRCVDAPTPADPAAWVAADQRIRQVAPFLSYGQFTGSAPRDLCALWPVPATSTPHPAAPAGAGKVVVVSTTHDPATPYQSGVDLARQLGAPLITFDGTQHTAVFDGNQCVDSAVMHYFLDGTLPPTSLRCAP