PE26 Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2519 · MTBC0 - · 492 aa · 2835785–2837263 (+) · RefSeq YP_177888.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)PE family protein PE26
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)PE family protein PE26. Pfam: PE (PF00934.26), PGRS (PF21526.3), PE-PGRS_C (PF20729.3).

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 Q79FD3 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Predicted
UniProt namePE family protein PE26

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category I Lipid transport and metabolism
eggNOG descriptionacetylesterase activity
Orthologous groupCOG0657

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) pseudogene candidate

pN/pS 0.933 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 4 synonymous, 10 missense, 0 nonsense, 2 frameshift
Disruption 2 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 5.95% of strains (8637) · 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
PEPF00934.26 2.2e-284–93 PE family
PGRSPF21526.3 9.0e-16122–191 PGRS repeats
PE-PGRS_CPF20729.3 5.5e-87207–485 PE-PGRS C-terminal aspartyl peptidase-like domain

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

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1364c sigma factor regulatory protein 520 515 coexpression:500
Rv3718c hyp hypothetical protein 772 105 textmining:756
Rv3207c hyp hypothetical protein 446 60 textmining:435
Rv1198 esxL ESAT-6 like protein EsxL 526 46 textmining:524
Rv0050 ponA1 bifunctional penicillin-insensitive transglycosylase/penicillin-sensitive transpeptidase 625 43 textmining:625
Rv3621c PPE65 PPE family protein PPE65 698 41 textmining:698
Rv3344c PE_PGRS49 PE-PGRS family protein PE_PGRS49 657 41 textmining:657
Rv3810 pirG cell surface protein 656 41 textmining:656
Rv0475 hbhA heparin binding hemagglutinin HbhA 431 41 textmining:432

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): PE family protein PE26
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): PE PF00934.26 (E=2e-28), PGRS PF21526.3 (E=9e-16), PE-PGRS_C PF20729.3 (E=6e-87)
  • (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 YP_177888.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — PE (PF00934.26), PGRS (PF21526.3), PE-PGRS_C (PF20729.3)
  • 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 COG0657
  • Curated reference: UniProt Q79FD3 (TrEMBL, unreviewed; Predicted)
  • 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 — 9 functional partner(s)
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv2519|PE26
MSRLIVAPDWLASAAAEVQSIGSALSAANAAAAAPTTLLVAAAEDEVSAAAAALFANYGREYQTLSVRFASLDQQFAQALNSAAASYQTAEATGASLVQTATQGVLGVINAPTEFMFGRSLIGDGADGTAASPIGEPGGILYGDGGNGYSQTTPGAVGGAGGSAGFIGNGGAGGAGGPGAGGGTGGLGGWLWGNNGAAGTGDPVNVAVPLRVENNFPLVNLLVNRGPTVPILLDTGSSSLVIPFWKIGWQNLGLPTGFDVVHYGNGVSIVYADVPTTVDFGGGAATTPTSVHVGILPYPRNLDSLVLIASGGAFGPNGNGILGIGPNVGSYAVSGPGNVVTTDLPGQLNEGTLIDIPGGYMQFGPNTGTPITSVTGAPITVLNVQIGGYDPNGGYWSLPSIFDSGGNHGTLPAVILGTGQTTGYAPPGTVISISIHDNQTLLYQYTTTASNSPVVTADPRLNTGLTPFLLGPVYISNNPSGVGTVVFNYPPP