mbtB Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2383c · MTBC0 mtbc0_002535 · 1414 aa · 2695786–2700030 (-) · RefSeq NP_216899.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)phenyloxazoline synthase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationphenyloxazoline synthase MbtB
Revised (this work)Phenyloxazoline synthase MbtB. Pfam: Condensation (PF00668.26), AMP-binding (PF00501.35), AMP-binding_C (PF13193.13), PP-binding (PF00550.32), Thioesterase (PF00975.27).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WQ63 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt namePhenyloxazoline synthase MbtB
EC (curated) EC 6.3.2.-
Curated functionInvolved in the initial steps of the mycobactin biosynthetic pathway. Putatively couples activated salicylic acid with serine or threonine and cyclizes this precursor to the hydroxyphenyloxazoline ring system present in this class of siderophores. Essential for growth in macrophages.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category Q Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport and catabolism
Preferred namembtB
eggNOG descriptionCondensation domain
Orthologous groupCOG1020
KEGG orthology K04788
KEGG pathways map01053

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 0.79 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 10 synonymous, 22 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
CondensationPF00668.26 8.7e-27100–441 Condensation domain
AMP-bindingPF00501.35 6.4e-80558–904 AMP-binding enzyme
AMP-binding_CPF13193.13 2.1e-06959–1031 AMP-binding enzyme C-terminal domain
PP-bindingPF00550.32 1.8e-131065–1131 Phosphopantetheine attachment site
ThioesterasePF00975.27 7.6e-661190–1411 Thioesterase domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: mbtA (2,3-dihydroxybenzoate-AMP ligase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 1000 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2384 mbtA 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate-AMP ligase 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:784 coexpression:999 experimental:699 textmining:761
Rv3800c pks13 polyketide synthase 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:544 coexpression:999 experimental:473 textmining:745
Rv2377c mbtH hyp hypothetical protein 999 999 ctx neighborhood:756 cooccurence:650 coexpression:971 experimental:564 textmining:864
Rv2380c mbtE peptide synthetase 999 999 ctx neighborhood:756 coexpression:992 textmining:718
Rv2382c mbtC polyketide synthetase 999 998 ctx neighborhood:882 fusion:697 coexpression:913 textmining:942
Rv3825c pks2 phthioceranic/hydroxyphthioceranic acid synthase 998 995 ctx neighborhood:544 cooccurence:438 coexpression:937 experimental:721 textmining:763
Rv2940c mas multifunctional mycocerosic acid synthase 998 995 ctx neighborhood:544 cooccurence:435 coexpression:937 experimental:721 textmining:761
Rv1527c pks5 polyketide synthase 998 995 ctx neighborhood:544 cooccurence:437 coexpression:937 experimental:721 textmining:745
Rv2048c pks12 polyketide synthase 998 994 ctx neighborhood:544 coexpression:937 experimental:721 textmining:745
Rv2933 ppsC phthiocerol synthesis polyketide synthase type I PpsC 998 994 ctx neighborhood:544 coexpression:937 experimental:721 textmining:752
Rv0101 nrp peptide synthetase Nrp 997 993 ctx neighborhood:544 coexpression:979 textmining:647
Rv2381c mbtD polyketide synthetase 998 991 ctx neighborhood:800 cooccurence:504 coexpression:897 textmining:859
Rv3215 entC isochorismate synthase 997 991 ctx neighborhood:544 coexpression:982 textmining:696
Rv0405 pks6 membrane bound polyketide synthase 992 982 ctx neighborhood:544 coexpression:876 experimental:473 textmining:581
Rv2379c mbtF peptide synthetase 990 982 ctx neighborhood:721 coexpression:910 textmining:515

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: phenyloxazoline synthase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: phenyloxazoline synthase MbtB
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Condensation PF00668.26 (E=9e-27), AMP-binding PF00501.35 (E=6e-80), AMP-binding_C PF13193.13 (E=2e-06), PP-binding PF00550.32 (E=2e-13), Thioesterase PF00975.27 (E=8e-66)
  • (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_216899.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Condensation (PF00668.26), AMP-binding (PF00501.35), AMP-binding_C (PF13193.13), PP-binding (PF00550.32), Thioesterase (PF00975.27)
  • 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 COG1020
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WQ63 (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 — 198 functional partner(s); context anchor mbtA
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_002535|Rv2383c|mbtB
MVHATACSEIIRAEVAELLGVRADALHPGANLVGQGLDSIRMMSLVGRWRRKGIAVDFATLAATPTIEAWSQLVSAGTGVAPTAVAAPGDAGLSQEGEPFPLAPMQHAMWVGRHDHQQLGGVAGHLYVEFDGARVDPDRLRAAATRLALRHPMLRVQFLPDGTQRIPPAAGSRDFPISVADLRHVAPDVVDQRLAGIRDAKSHQQLDGAVFELALTLLPGERTRLHVDLDMQAADAMSYRILLADLAALYDGREPPALGYTYREYRQAIEAEETLPQPVRDADRDWWAQRIPQLPDPPALPTRAGGERDRRRSTRRWHWLDPQTRDALFARARARGITPAMTLAAAFANVLARWSASSRFLLNLPLFSRQALHPDVDLLVGDFTSSLLLDVDLTGARTAAARAQAVQEALRSAAGHSAYPGLSVLRDLSRHRGTQVLAPVVFTSALGLGDLFCPDVTEQFGTPGWIISQGPQVLLDAQVTEFDGGVLVNWDVREGVFAPGVIDAMFTHQVDELLRLAAGDDAWDAPSPSALPAAQRAVRAALNGRTAAPSTEALHDGFFRQAQQQPDAPAVFASSGDLSYAQLRDQASAVAAALRAAGLRVGDTVAVLGPKTGEQVAAVLGILAAGGVYLPIGVDQPRDRAERILATGSVNLALVCGPPCQVRVPVPTLLLADVLAAAPAEFVPGPSDPTALAYVLFTSGSTGEPKGVEVAHDAAMNTVETFIRHFELGAADRWLALATLECDMSVLDIFAALRSGGAIVVVDEAQRRDPDAWARLIDTYEVTALNFMPGWLDMLLEVGGGRLSSLRAVAVGGDWVRPDLARRLQVQAPSARFAGLGGATETAVHATIFEVQDAANLPPDWASVPYGVPFPNNACRVVADSGDDCPDWVAGELWVSGRGIARGYRGRPELTAERFVEHDGRTWYRTGDLARYWHDGTLEFVGRADHRVKISGYRVELGEIEAALQRLPGVHAAAATVLPGGSDVLAAAVCVDDAGVTAESIRQQLADLVPAHMIPRHVTLLDRIPFTDSGKIDRAEVGALLAAEVERSGDRSAPYAAPRTVLQRALRRIVADILGRANDAVGVHDDFFALGGDSVLATQVVAGIRRWLDSPSLMVADMFAARTIAALAQLLTGREANADRLELVAEVYLEIANMTSADVMAALDPIEQPAQPAFKPWVKRFTGTDKPGAVLVFPHAGGAAAAYRWLAKSLVANDVDTFVVQYPQRADRRSHPAADSIEALALELFEAGDWHLTAPLTLFGHCMGAIVAFEFARLAERNGVPVRALWASSGQAPSTVAASGPLPTADRDVLADMVDLGGTDPVLLEDEEFVELLVPAVKADYRALSGYSCPPDVRIRANIHAVGGNRDHRISREMLTSWETHTSGRFTLSHFDGGHFYLNDHLDAVARMVSADVR