sseB Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2291 · MTBC0 mtbc0_002432 · 284 aa · 2587921–2588775 (+) · RefSeq NP_216807.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)thiosulfate sulfurtransferase SseB
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationsulfurtransferase
Revised (this work)Sulfurtransferase. Pfam: Rhodanese (PF00581.26).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WHF5 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt namePutative thiosulfate sulfurtransferase SseB
EC (curated) EC 2.8.1.1

UniProt still lists this protein as Putative thiosulfate sulfurtransferase SseB; the revised annotation above is ahead of the current UniProt record.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category P Inorganic ion transport and metabolism
Preferred namesseB
eggNOG descriptionsulfurtransferase
Orthologous groupCOG2897
EC number EC 2.8.1.1, EC 2.8.1.2
KEGG orthology K01011
KEGG pathways map00270, map00920, map01100, map01120, map04122

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) pseudogene candidate

pN/pS 0.739 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 3 synonymous, 5 missense, 1 nonsense, 2 frameshift
Disruption 3 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 5.23% of strains (7589) · clonal

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
RhodanesePF00581.26 2.6e-1610–131 Rhodanese-like domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: lppO (lipoprotein LppO), medium confidence from genomic context alone (score 649 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3283 sseA thiosulfate sulfurtransferase SseA 941 928 database:900
Rv0815c cysA2 thiosulfate sulfurtransferase CysA 936 928 database:900
Rv3025c iscS cysteine desulfurase 923 915 database:900
Rv2391 sirA sulfite reductase 909 904 database:900
Rv2392 cysH phosphoadenosine phosphosulfate reductase 909 904 database:900
Rv0075 aminotransferase 903 903 database:900
Rv2294 cystathionine beta-lyase 905 902 database:900
Rv2334 cysK1 O-acetylserine sulfhydrylase 869 818 database:800
Rv3684 lyase 827 818 database:800
Rv1079 metB cystathionine gamma-synthase 867 817 database:800
Rv0391 metZ O-succinylhomoserine sulfhydrylase 866 816 database:800
Rv3238c mddA integral membrane protein 806 806 database:800
Rv2290 lppO lipoprotein LppO 945 649 ctx neighborhood:644 textmining:852
Rv3673c membrane-anchored thioredoxin-like protein 631 630 database:561
Rv0526 thioredoxin 631 630 database:561

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: thiosulfate sulfurtransferase SseB
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: sulfurtransferase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Rhodanese PF00581.26 (E=3e-16)
  • (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_216807.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Rhodanese (PF00581.26)
  • 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 COG2897
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WHF5 (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 — 47 functional partner(s); context anchor lppO
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_002432|Rv2291|sseB
MQARGQVLITAAELAGMIQAGDPVSILDVRWRLDEPDGHAAYLQGHLPGAVFVSLEDELSDHTIAGRGRHPLPSGASLQATVRRCGIRHDVPVVVYDDWNRAGSARAWWVLTAAGIANVRILDGGLPAWRSAGGSIETGQVSPQLGNVTVLHDDLYAGQRLTLTAQQAGAGGVTLLDARVPERFRGDVEPVDAVAGHIPGAINVPSGSVLADDGTFLGNGALNALLSDHGIDHGGRVGVYCGSGVSAAVIVAALAVIGQDAALFPGSWSEWSSDPTRPVGRGTA