plsB2 Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2482c · MTBC0 mtbc0_002642 · 789 aa · 2809804–2812173 (-) · RefSeq NP_216998.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationglycerol-3-phosphate 1-O-acyltransferase
Revised (this work)Glycerol-3-phosphate 1-O-acyltransferase. Pfam: Acyltransferase (PF01553.27), GPAT_C (PF19277.5).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WI61 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameGlycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase
EC (curated) EC 2.3.1.15

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category I Lipid transport and metabolism
Preferred nameplsB
eggNOG descriptionBelongs to the GPAT DAPAT family
Orthologous groupCOG2937
EC number EC 2.3.1.15
KEGG orthology K00631
KEGG pathways map00561, map00564, map01100, map01110
KEGG modules M00089
Gene Ontology (6) GO:0005575, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0016020, GO:0044464, GO:0071944

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 0.574 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 7 synonymous, 11 missense, 1 nonsense, 2 frameshift
Disruption 3 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.66% of strains (953) · 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
AcyltransferasePF01553.27 2.1e-15266–378 Acyltransferase
GPAT_CPF19277.5 6.4e-65405–741 Glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase C-terminal region

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

Closest characterised functional partner: plsC (bifunctional L-3-phosphoserine phosphatase/1-acyl-sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 991 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2483c plsC bifunctional L-3-phosphoserine phosphatase/1-acyl-sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase 996 991 ctx neighborhood:881 cooccurence:753 coexpression:733 textmining:595
Rv2484c diacyglycerol O-acyltransferase 988 979 ctx neighborhood:881 cooccurence:723 coexpression:409 textmining:470
Rv1551 plsB1 acyltransferase PlsB 926 922 database:900
Rv2182c 1-acylglycerol-3-phosphate O-acyltransferase 925 905 database:900
Rv0564c gpdA1 glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase 927 904 database:900
Rv2982c gpdA2 glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase 917 904 database:900
Rv3302c glpD2 glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase 930 903 database:900
Rv2249c glpD1 glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase 931 901 database:900
Rv1692 phosphatase 900 901 database:900
Rv3696c glpK glycerol kinase 922 900 database:900
Rv0441c hyp hypothetical protein 810 802 ctx cooccurence:523 database:549
Rv2481c hyp hypothetical protein 765 764 ctx neighborhood:749
Rv1203c hyp hypothetical protein 632 632 ctx cooccurence:630
Rv1771 L-gulono-1,4-lactone dehydrogenase 628 612 database:549
Rv2280 Rv2280, (MTCY339.30c), len: 459 aa. Probable dehydrogenase. Similar to D-lactate dehydrogenase (cytochrome) precursor e.g. G1061264 (587 aa) 624 609 database:549

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: glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: glycerol-3-phosphate 1-O-acyltransferase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Acyltransferase PF01553.27 (E=2e-15), GPAT_C PF19277.5 (E=6e-65)
  • (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_216998.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Acyltransferase (PF01553.27), GPAT_C (PF19277.5)
  • 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 COG2937
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WI61 (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 — 78 functional partner(s); context anchor plsC
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_002642|Rv2482c|plsB2
MTKPAADASAVLTAEDTLVLASTATPVEMELIMGWLGQQRARHPDSKFDILKLPPRNAPPAALTALVEQLEPGFASSPQSGEDRSIVPVRVIWLPPADRSRAGKVAALLPGRDPYHPSQRQQRRILRTDPRRARVVAGESAKVSELRQQWRDTTVAEHKRDFAQFVSRRALLALARAEYRILGPQYKSPRLVKPEMLASARFRAGLDRIPGATVEDAGKMLDELSTGWSQVSVDLVSVLGRLASRGFDPEFDYDEYQVAAMRAALEAHPAVLLFSHRSYIDGVVVPVAMQDNRLPPVHMFGGINLSFGLMGPLMRRSGMIFIRRNIGNDPLYKYVLKEYVGYVVEKRFNLSWSIEGTRSRTGKMLPPKLGLMSYVADAYLDGRSDDILLQGVSICFDQLHEITEYAAYARGAEKTPEGLRWLYNFIKAQGERNFGKIYVRFPEAVSMRQYLGAPHGELTQDPAAKRLALQKMSFEVAWRILQATPVTATGLVSALLLTTRGTALTLDQLHHTLQDSLDYLERKQSPVSTSALRLRSREGVRAAADALSNGHPVTRVDSGREPVWYIAPDDEHAAAFYRNSVIHAFLETSIVELALAHAKHAEGDRVAAFWAQAMRLRDLLKFDFYFADSTAFRANIAQEMAWHQDWEDHLGVGGNEIDAMLYAKRPLMSDAMLRVFFEAYEIVADVLRDAPPDIGPEELTELALGLGRQFVAQGRVRSSEPVSTLLFATARQVAVDQELIAPAADLAERRVAFRRELRNILRDFDYVEQIARNQFVAREFKARQGRDRI