lppB Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2544 · MTBC0 mtbc0_002711 · 220 aa · 2890669–2891331 (+) · RefSeq NP_217060.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)lipoprotein LppB
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 P9WK79 SwissProt · reviewed · Inferred from homology
UniProt namePutative lipoprotein LppB

UniProt still lists this protein as Putative lipoprotein LppB; 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
Gene Ontology (2) GO:0005575, GO:0005576

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 0.235 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 12 synonymous, 8 missense, 1 nonsense, 2 frameshift
Disruption 3 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 1.17% of strains (1699) · 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 3.4e-3942–194 Lipoprotein confined to pathogenic Mycobacterium

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

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

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2543 lppA lipoprotein LppA 945 944 ctx neighborhood:801 coexpression:732
Rv2545 vapB18 antitoxin VapB18 810 810 ctx neighborhood:801
Rv2542 hyp hypothetical protein 560 560 ctx neighborhood:556
Rv2546 vapC18 ribonuclease VapC18 555 555 ctx neighborhood:551
Rv2548 vapC19 ribonuclease VapC19 475 476 ctx neighborhood:473
Rv2547 vapB19 antitoxin VapB19 475 476 ctx neighborhood:473
Rv3429 PPE59 PPE family protein PPE59 466 54 textmining:459
Rv1224 tatB Sec-independent protein translocase protein TatB 467 53 textmining:461
Rv0006 gyrA DNA gyrase subunit A 490 49 textmining:486
Rv3648c cspA cold shock protein A 436 47 textmining:433
Rv1872c lldD2 L-lactate dehydrogenase 594 46 textmining:592
Rv3892c PPE69 PPE family protein PPE69 436 46 textmining:434
Rv1175c fadH NADPH dependent 2,4-dienoyl-CoA reductase FadH 600 44 textmining:600
Rv2178c aroG phospho-2-dehydro-3-deoxyheptonate aldolase AroG 546 44 textmining:545
Rv1446c opcA OXPP cycle protein OpcA 466 44 textmining:465

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 LppB
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: LppA family lipoprotein
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): LppA PF16708.11 (E=3e-39)
  • (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_217060.1)
  • 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 P9WK79 (SwissProt, reviewed; Inferred from homology)
  • 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 — 23 functional partner(s); context anchor lppA
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_002711|Rv2544|lppB
MIAPQPIPRTLPRWQRIVALTMIGISTALIGGCTMGQNPDKSPHLTGEQKIQLIDSMRHKGSYEAARERLTATAQIIADRVSAAIPGQTWKFNDDSYGQDFYRNGSLCKELSADIARRPMAKPVDFGSTFSAEDFKIAANIVREEAAKYGVTTESSLFNESAKRDYDVQGNGYEFNLGQIKFATLNITGDCFLLQKVLDLPAGQLPPEPPIWPTTSTPTP