Rv2372c Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2372c · MTBC0 mtbc0_002524 · 262 aa · 2676230–2677018 (-) · RefSeq NP_216888.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)rRNA small subunit methyltransferase E
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation16S rRNA (uracil(1498)-N(3))-methyltransferase
Revised (this work)16S rRNA (uracil(1498)-N(3))-methyltransferase. Pfam: PUA_4 (PF20260.5), Methyltrans_RNA (PF04452.20).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WGX1 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameRibosomal RNA small subunit methyltransferase E
EC (curated) EC 2.1.1.193
Curated functionSpecifically methylates the N3 position of the uracil ring of uridine 1498 (m3U1498) in 16S rRNA. Acts on the fully assembled 30S ribosomal subunit (By similarity).

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category J Translation, ribosomal structure and biogenesis
Preferred namersmE
eggNOG descriptionSpecifically methylates the N3 position of the uracil ring of uridine 1498 (m3U1498) in 16S rRNA. Acts on the fully assembled 30S ribosomal subunit
Orthologous groupCOG1385
EC number EC 2.1.1.193
KEGG orthology K09761
Gene Ontology (47) GO:0000154, GO:0001510, GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0006139, GO:0006364, GO:0006396, GO:0006725, GO:0006807, GO:0008150, GO:0008152, GO:0008168 +35 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 1.373 · diversifying/relaxed
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 2 synonymous, 7 missense, 0 nonsense, 1 frameshift
Disruption 1 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.26% of strains (377) · 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
PUA_4PF20260.5 6.4e-1220–66 RNA methyltransferase PUA domain
Methyltrans_RNAPF04452.20 1.2e-4678–240 RNA methyltransferase domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: dnaJ2 (chaperone protein DnaJ), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 966 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2373c dnaJ2 chaperone protein DnaJ 967 966 ctx neighborhood:872 coexpression:714
Rv2374c hrcA heat-inducible transcription repressor HrcA 825 795 ctx neighborhood:784
Rv2364c era GTPase Era 621 621 ctx neighborhood:544
Rv2365c hyp hypothetical protein 548 549 ctx neighborhood:544
Rv2366c transmembrane protein 548 548 ctx neighborhood:544
Rv2367c ybeY endoribonuclease 545 546 ctx neighborhood:543
Rv2375 hyp hypothetical protein 539 539 ctx neighborhood:535
Rv2368c phoH1 phosphate starvation-inducible protein PhoH 517 517 ctx neighborhood:514
Rv2733c miaB (dimethylallyl)adenosine tRNA methylthiotransferase 515 461
Rv0352 dnaJ1 chaperone protein DnaJ 468 449
Rv1402 priA primosomal protein N' 438 438
Rv1311 atpC ATP synthase subunit epsilon 412 412
Rv1703c methyltransferase 410 411 coexpression:411
Rv1220c methyltransferase 410 411 coexpression:411
Rv2841c nusA transcription termination/antitermination protein NusA 410 410

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: rRNA small subunit methyltransferase E
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: 16S rRNA (uracil(1498)-N(3))-methyltransferase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): PUA_4 PF20260.5 (E=6e-12), Methyltrans_RNA PF04452.20 (E=1e-46)
  • (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_216888.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — PUA_4 (PF20260.5), Methyltrans_RNA (PF04452.20)
  • 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 COG1385
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WGX1 (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 — 27 functional partner(s); context anchor dnaJ2
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_002524|Rv2372c|
MVAMLFYVDTLPDTGAVAVVDGDEGFHAATVRRIRPGEQLVLGDGVGRLARCVVEQAGRGGLRARVLRRWSVPPVRPPVTVVQALPKSERSELAIELATEAGADAFLAWQAARCVANWDGARVDKGLRRWRAVVRSAARQSRRARIPPVDGVLSTPMLVQRVREEVAAGAAVLVLHEEATERIVDIAAAQAGSLMLVVGPEGGIAPDELAALTDAGAVAVRLGPTVLRTSTAAAVALGAVGVLTSRWDASASDCEYCDVTRR