hemN Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2388c · MTBC0 - · 375 aa · 2682015–2683142 (-) · RefSeq NP_216904.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)oxygen-independent coproporphyrinogen III oxidase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Oxygen-independent coproporphyrinogen III oxidase. Pfam: Radical_SAM (PF04055.28).

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

Annotated on the H37Rv protein: this gene has no 1:1 ancestral MTBC0 anchor (PE/PPE, paralogue, IS element, or otherwise unanchored CDS).

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WP73 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameHeme chaperone HemW
Curated functionProbably acts as a heme chaperone, transferring heme to an unknown acceptor. Binds one molecule of heme per monomer, possibly covalently (By similarity). Binds 1 [4Fe-4S] cluster. The cluster is coordinated with 3 cysteines and an exchangeable S-adenosyl-L-methionine (By similarity).

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category H Coenzyme transport and metabolism
Preferred namehemN
eggNOG descriptionInvolved in the biosynthesis of porphyrin-containing compound
Orthologous groupCOG0635
Gene Ontology (37) GO:0003674, GO:0005488, GO:0005575, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0006725, GO:0006778, GO:0006779, GO:0006807, GO:0008150, GO:0008152 +25 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 0.37 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 4 synonymous, 4 missense, 0 nonsense, 1 frameshift
Disruption 1 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.63% of strains (913) · 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
Radical_SAMPF04055.28 1.3e-2010–182 Radical SAM superfamily

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

Closest characterised functional partner: rpfD (resuscitation-promoting factor RpfD), medium confidence from genomic context alone (score 642 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2389c rpfD resuscitation-promoting factor RpfD 726 642 ctx neighborhood:640
Rv2390c hyp hypothetical protein 826 571 ctx neighborhood:570 textmining:611
Rv2879c rlmN Conserved hypothetical protein; Specifically methylates position 2 of adenine 2503 in 23S rRNA and position 2 of adenine 37 in tRNAs; Belong 605 564 ctx cooccurence:546
Rv2678c hemE uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase 661 558 database:500
Rv3859c gltB glutamate synthase large subunit 687 545 ctx neighborhood:544
Rv2880c Rv2880c, (MTCY274.11c), len: 275 aa. Conserved hypothetical protein, highly similar in N-terminus to others e.g. O86754|SC6A9.22c hypothetic 549 503 ctx cooccurence:479
Rv2783c gpsI bifunctional guanosine pentaphosphate synthetase/polyribonucleotide nucleotidyltransferase 503 503 ctx cooccurence:458
Rv3232c ppk2 polyphosphate kinase 501 502 coexpression:473
Rv2391 sirA sulfite reductase 503 496 ctx neighborhood:488
Rv2392 cysH phosphoadenosine phosphosulfate reductase 508 490 ctx neighborhood:482
Rv0213c methyltransferase 518 446 coexpression:420
Rv2148c hyp hypothetical protein 442 443
Rv2733c miaB (dimethylallyl)adenosine tRNA methylthiotransferase 509 438
Rv0408 pta phosphate acetyltransferase 600 434 coexpression:416
Rv1292 argS arginine--tRNA ligase 414 414 coexpression:413

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

  • Annotation from H37Rv (no MTBC0 1:1 anchor; H37Rv protein used): oxygen-independent coproporphyrinogen III oxidase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Radical_SAM PF04055.28 (E=1e-20)
  • (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_216904.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Radical_SAM (PF04055.28)
  • 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 COG0635
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WP73 (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 — 35 functional partner(s); context anchor rpfD
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv2388c|hemN
MPGQPFGVYLHVPFCLTRCGYCDFNTYTPAQLGGVSPDRWLLALRAELELAAAKLDAPTVHTVYVGGGTPSLLGGERLATLLDMVRDHFVLAPDAEVSTEANPESTWPEFFATIRAAGYTRVSLGMQSVAPRVLATLDRVHSPGRAAAAATEAIAEGFTHVNLDLIYGTPGESDDDLVRSVDAAVQAGVDHVSAYALVVEHGTALARRVRRGELAAPDDDVLAHRYELVDARLSAAGFAWYEVSNWCRPGGECRHNLGYWDGGQWWGAGPGAHGYIGVTRWWNVKHPNTYAEILAGATLPVAGFEQLGADALHTEDVLLKVRLRQGLPLARLGAAERERAEAVLADGLLDYHGDRLVLTGRGRLLADAVVRTLLG