lppA Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2543 · MTBC0 mtbc0_002709 · 219 aa · 2889358–2890017 (+) · RefSeq NP_217059.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)lipoprotein LppA
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationLppA family lipoprotein
Revised (this work)LppA family lipoprotein. Pfam: LppA (PF16708.11).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WK81 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt namePutative lipoprotein LppA

UniProt still lists this protein as Putative lipoprotein LppA; the revised annotation above is ahead of the current UniProt record.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category S Function unknown
Preferred namelppB
eggNOG descriptionLipoprotein confined to pathogenic Mycobacterium
Orthologous group2ATJU

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 0.229 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 10 synonymous, 7 missense, 0 nonsense, 1 frameshift
Disruption 1 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.10% of strains (145) · 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
LppAPF16708.11 1.7e-4340–194 Lipoprotein confined to pathogenic Mycobacterium

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

Closest characterised functional partner: lppB (lipoprotein LppB), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 944 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2544 lppB lipoprotein LppB 945 944 ctx neighborhood:801 coexpression:732
Rv2545 vapB18 antitoxin VapB18 783 783 ctx neighborhood:781
Rv2546 vapC18 ribonuclease VapC18 546 546 ctx neighborhood:543
Rv2542 hyp hypothetical protein 526 526 ctx neighborhood:523
Rv2548 vapC19 ribonuclease VapC19 464 464 ctx neighborhood:458
Rv2547 vapB19 antitoxin VapB19 461 461 ctx neighborhood:458
Rv1872c lldD2 L-lactate dehydrogenase 413 54 textmining:406
Rv3648c cspA cold shock protein A 406 51 textmining:400
Rv1224 tatB Sec-independent protein translocase protein TatB 464 50 textmining:460
Rv3429 PPE59 PPE family protein PPE59 460 47 textmining:457
Rv1446c opcA OXPP cycle protein OpcA 475 45 textmining:473
Rv3892c PPE69 PPE family protein PPE69 435 45 textmining:433
Rv0648 alpha-mannosidase 631 44 textmining:630
Rv2178c aroG phospho-2-dehydro-3-deoxyheptonate aldolase AroG 560 43 textmining:559
Rv3564 fadE33 acyl-CoA dehydrogenase FadE33 407 42 textmining:407

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: lipoprotein LppA
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: LppA family lipoprotein
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): LppA PF16708.11 (E=2e-43)
  • (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_217059.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — LppA (PF16708.11)
  • 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 2ATJU
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WK81 (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 — 22 functional partner(s); context anchor lppB
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_002709|Rv2543|lppA
MIAPQPISRTLPRWQRIVALTMIGISTALIGGCTMDHNPDTSRRLTGEQKIQLIDSMRNKGSYEAARERLTATARIIADRVSAAIPGQTWKFDDDPNIQQSDRNGALCDKLTADIARRPIANSVMFGATFSAEDFKIAANIVREEAAKYGATTESSLFNESAKRDYDVQGNGYEFRLLQIKFATLNITGDCFLLQKVLDLPAGQLPPEPPIWPTTSTPH