zur Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2359 · MTBC0 mtbc0_002511 · 130 aa · 2665843–2666235 (+) · RefSeq NP_216875.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)zinc uptake regulation protein
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationzinc uptake transcriptional repressor Zur
Revised (this work)Zinc uptake transcriptional repressor Zur. Pfam: FUR (PF01475.26), WHD_RNase_R (PF08461.17).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WN85 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameZinc uptake regulation protein
Curated functionGlobal transcriptional regulator involved in zinc homeostasis. Represses the transcription of at least 32 genes, including genes involved in zinc homeostasis, by binding to promoter sequences that contain a conserved 26 bp palindrome, in the presence of zinc.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category P Inorganic ion transport and metabolism
Preferred namefurB
eggNOG descriptionBelongs to the Fur family
Orthologous groupCOG0735
KEGG orthology K03711
Gene Ontology (88) GO:0000976, GO:0001067, GO:0001130, GO:0001217, GO:0003674, GO:0003676, GO:0003677, GO:0003690, GO:0003700, GO:0005488, GO:0005515, GO:0005575 +76 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 1.305 · diversifying/relaxed
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 1 synonymous, 4 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
FURPF01475.26 2.4e-394–121 Ferric uptake regulator family
WHD_RNase_RPF08461.17 7.7e-0517–61 Ribonuclease R winged-helix domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: smtB (HTH-type transcriptional regulator SmtB), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 907 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3457c rpoA DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit alpha 976 976 experimental:973
Rv2358 smtB HTH-type transcriptional regulator SmtB 965 907 ctx neighborhood:882 textmining:639
Rv1460 sufR transcriptional regulator 847 847 coexpression:842
Rv0667 rpoB DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit beta 834 834 experimental:818
Rv0668 rpoC DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit beta' 831 831 experimental:818
Rv1390 rpoZ DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit omega 832 826 experimental:818
Rv2703 sigA RNA polymerase sigma factor SigA 852 820 experimental:767
Rv2710 sigB RNA polymerase sigma factor SigB 835 820 experimental:767
Rv0117 oxyS oxidative stress response regulatory protein OxyS 811 800 coexpression:800
Rv1019 transcriptional regulator 805 795 coexpression:795
Rv0827c kmtR HTH-type transcriptional regulator KmtR 819 792 coexpression:785
Rv1267c embR transcriptional regulator EmbR 770 770 coexpression:770
Rv2357c glyS glycine--tRNA ligase 764 765 ctx neighborhood:764
Rv0212c nadR transcriptional regulator NadR 740 740 coexpression:732
Rv1152 transcriptional regulator 749 735 coexpression:735

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: zinc uptake regulation protein
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: zinc uptake transcriptional repressor Zur
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): FUR PF01475.26 (E=2e-39), WHD_RNase_R PF08461.17 (E=8e-05)
  • (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_216875.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — FUR (PF01475.26), WHD_RNase_R (PF08461.17)
  • 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 COG0735
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WN85 (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 — 50 functional partner(s); context anchor smtB
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_002511|Rv2359|zur
MSAAGVRSTRQRAAISTLLETLDDFRSAQELHDELRRRGENIGLTTVYRTLQSMASSGLVDTLRTDTGESVYRRCSEHHHHHLVCRSCGSTIEVGDHEVEAWAAEVATKHGFSDVSHTIEIFGTCSDCRS