sirA Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2391 · MTBC0 - · 563 aa · 2684679–2686370 (+) · RefSeq NP_216907.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)sulfite reductase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Sulfite reductase. Pfam: NIR_SIR_ferr (PF03460.23), NIR_SIR (PF01077.28).

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 P9WJ03 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameSulfite reductase [ferredoxin]
EC (curated) EC 1.8.7.1
Curated functionCatalyzes the reduction of sulfite to sulfide, a step in the biosynthesis of sulfur-containing amino acids and cofactors.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category C Energy production and conversion
Preferred namesirA
eggNOG descriptionBelongs to the nitrite and sulfite reductase 4Fe-4S domain family
Orthologous groupCOG0155
EC number EC 1.7.7.1, EC 1.8.7.1
KEGG orthology K00366, K00392
KEGG pathways map00910, map00920, map01100, map01120
KEGG modules M00176, M00531
Gene Ontology (59) GO:0000096, GO:0000097, GO:0000103, GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0005488, GO:0005575, GO:0005618, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0005829 +47 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 0.43 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 3 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
NIR_SIR_ferrPF03460.23 6.0e-15100–160 Nitrite/Sulfite reductase ferredoxin-like half domain
NIR_SIRPF01077.28 9.6e-42169–322 Nitrite and sulphite reductase 4Fe-4S domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: cysH (phosphoadenosine phosphosulfate reductase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 1000 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2392 cysH phosphoadenosine phosphosulfate reductase 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:882 fusion:497 cooccurence:767 coexpression:971 database:900 textmining:845
Rv1286 cysC adenylyl-sulfate kinase 996 993 ctx cooccurence:464 coexpression:985 textmining:515
Rv2393 che1 ferrochelatase 989 987 ctx neighborhood:881 coexpression:871
Rv2334 cysK1 O-acetylserine sulfhydrylase 958 942 coexpression:430 database:900
Rv3684 lyase 943 940 coexpression:409 database:900
Rv1079 metB cystathionine gamma-synthase 965 931 database:900 textmining:518
Rv0391 metZ O-succinylhomoserine sulfhydrylase 950 931 database:900
Rv2394 ggtB gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase precursor GgtB 960 929 ctx neighborhood:651 coexpression:806 textmining:469
Rv2847c cysG multifunctional uroporphyrin-III C-methyltransferase/precorrin-2 oxidase/ferrochelatase 967 919 ctx cooccurence:549 coexpression:799 textmining:618
Rv0331 dehydrogenase/reductase 923 916 database:900
Rv0815c cysA2 thiosulfate sulfurtransferase CysA 914 906 database:900
Rv3283 sseA thiosulfate sulfurtransferase SseA 912 904 database:900
Rv2291 sseB thiosulfate sulfurtransferase SseB 909 904 database:900
Rv1285 cysD sulfate adenylyltransferase subunit 2 953 888 ctx cooccurence:606 coexpression:660 textmining:602
Rv3106 fprA NADPH-ferredoxin reductase FprA 839 815 coexpression:770

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): sulfite reductase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): NIR_SIR_ferr PF03460.23 (E=6e-15), NIR_SIR PF01077.28 (E=1e-41)
  • (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_216907.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — NIR_SIR_ferr (PF03460.23), NIR_SIR (PF01077.28)
  • 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 COG0155
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WJ03 (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 — 52 functional partner(s); context anchor cysH
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv2391|sirA
MSAKENPQMTTARPAKARNEGQWALGHREPLNANEELKKAGNPLDVRERIENIYAKQGFDSIDKTDLRGRFRWWGLYTQREQGYDGTWTGDDNIDKLEAKYFMMRVRCDGGALSAAALRTLGQISTEFARDTADISDRQNVQYHWIEVENVPEIWRRLDDVGLQTTEACGDCPRVVLGSPLAGESLDEVLDPTWAIEEIVRRYIGKPDFADLPRKYKTAISGLQDVAHEINDVAFIGVNHPEHGPGLDLWVGGGLSTNPMLAQRVGAWVPLGEVPEVWAAVTSVFRDYGYRRLRAKARLKFLIKDWGIAKFREVLETEYLKRPLIDGPAPEPVKHPIDHVGVQRLKNGLNAVGVAPIAGRVSGTILTAVADLMARAGSDRIRFTPYQKLVILDIPDALLDDLIAGLDALGLQSRPSHWRRNLMACSGIEFCKLSFAETRVRAQHLVPELERRLEDINSQLDVPITVNINGCPNSCARIQIADIGFKGQMIDDGHGGSVEGFQVHLGGHLGLDAGFGRKLRQHKVTSDELGDYIDRVVRNFVKHRSEGERFAQWVIRAEEDDLR