kasA Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2245 · MTBC0 mtbc0_002387 · 416 aa · 2544273–2545523 (+) · RefSeq NP_216761.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)3-oxoacyl-ACP synthase 1
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation3-oxoacyl-ACP synthase KasA
Revised (this work)3-oxoacyl-ACP synthase KasA. Pfam: ketoacyl-synt (PF00109.33), Thiolase_N (PF00108.30), Ketoacyl-synt_C (PF02801.29).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WQD9 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt name3-oxoacyl-[acyl-carrier-protein] synthase 1
EC (curated) EC 2.3.1.293
Curated functionPart of the mycobacterial fatty acid elongation system FAS-II, which is involved in mycolic acid biosynthesis. Catalyzes the elongation of long chain acyl-ACP substrates by the addition of two carbons from malonyl-ACP to an acyl acceptor. Involved in the initial extension of the mycolate chain and forms monounsaturated fatty acids that averaged 40 carbons in length.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category I Lipid transport and metabolism
Q Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport and catabolism
Preferred namekasA
eggNOG descriptionBelongs to the beta-ketoacyl-ACP synthases family
Orthologous groupCOG0304
EC number EC 2.3.1.179
KEGG orthology K09458, K11609
KEGG pathways map00061, map00780, map01100, map01212
KEGG modules M00083, M00572
Gene Ontology (49) GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0004312, GO:0004315, GO:0005488, GO:0005515, GO:0005575, GO:0005618, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0005829 +37 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 0.148 · strong purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 7 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
ketoacyl-syntPF00109.33 1.1e-4913–252 Beta-ketoacyl synthase, N-terminal domain
Thiolase_NPF00108.30 9.8e-07152–199 Thiolase, N-terminal domain
Ketoacyl-synt_CPF02801.29 9.5e-32262–374 Beta-ketoacyl synthase, C-terminal domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: fabD (malonyl CoA-acyl carrier protein transacylase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 997 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2243 fabD malonyl CoA-acyl carrier protein transacylase 999 997 ctx neighborhood:788 cooccurence:769 coexpression:934 textmining:947
Rv2244 acpM meromycolate extension acyl carrier protein 999 989 ctx neighborhood:882 coexpression:810 experimental:408 textmining:946
Rv2246 kasB 3-oxoacyl-ACP synthase 2 977 977 ctx neighborhood:836 coexpression:860
Rv0904c accD3 acetyl-CoAcarboxylase carboxyl transferase subunit beta 983 976 coexpression:961
Rv2247 accD6 acetyl-/propionyl-CoA carboxylase subunit beta 997 971 ctx neighborhood:798 coexpression:860 textmining:914
Rv0533c fabH 3-oxoacyl-ACP synthase III 988 922 ctx cooccurence:750 coexpression:678 textmining:860
Rv2933 ppsC phthiocerol synthesis polyketide synthase type I PpsC 929 899 coexpression:485 experimental:785
Rv1527c pks5 polyketide synthase 928 899 coexpression:488 experimental:785
Rv3825c pks2 phthioceranic/hydroxyphthioceranic acid synthase 928 899 coexpression:485 experimental:785
Rv2048c pks12 polyketide synthase 926 899 coexpression:488 experimental:785
Rv2940c mas multifunctional mycocerosic acid synthase 926 899 coexpression:490 experimental:785
Rv1663 pks17 polyketide synthase 889 882 coexpression:443 experimental:785
Rv1484 inhA NADH-dependent enoyl-[ACP 994 836 ctx cooccurence:466 coexpression:688 textmining:965
Rv3285 accA3 bifunctional protein acetyl-/propionyl-CoA carboxylase subunit alpha AccA 854 808 ctx cooccurence:654 coexpression:449
Rv1483 fabG1 3-oxoacyl-ACP reductase FabG 947 792 ctx cooccurence:655 textmining:759

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: 3-oxoacyl-ACP synthase 1
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: 3-oxoacyl-ACP synthase KasA
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): ketoacyl-synt PF00109.33 (E=1e-49), Thiolase_N PF00108.30 (E=1e-06), Ketoacyl-synt_C PF02801.29 (E=9e-32)
  • (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_216761.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — ketoacyl-synt (PF00109.33), Thiolase_N (PF00108.30), Ketoacyl-synt_C (PF02801.29)
  • 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 COG0304
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WQD9 (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 — 138 functional partner(s); context anchor fabD
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_002387|Rv2245|kasA
MSQPSTANGGFPSVVVTAVTATTSISPDIESTWKGLLAGESGIHALEDEFVTKWDLAVKIGGHLKDPVDSHMGRLDMRRMSYVQRMGKLLGGQLWESAGSPEVDPDRFAVVVGTGLGGAERIVESYDLMNAGGPRKVSPLAVQMIMPNGAAAVIGLQLGARAGVMTPVSACSSGSEAIAHAWRQIVMGDADVAVCGGVEGPIEALPIAAFSMMRAMSTRNDEPERASRPFDKDRDGFVFGEAGALMLIETEEHAKARGAKPLARLLGAGITSDAFHMVAPAADGVRAGRAMTRSLELAGLSPADIDHVNAHGTATPIGDAAEANAIRVAGCDQAAVYAPKSALGHSIGAVGALESVLTVLTLRDGVIPPTLNYETPDPEIDLDVVAGEPRYGDYRYAVNNSFGFGGHNVALAFGRY