sigB Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2710 · MTBC0 mtbc0_002884 · 323 aa · 3044876–3045847 (+) · RefSeq NP_217226.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)RNA polymerase sigma factor SigB
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationsigma-70 family RNA polymerase sigma factor SigB
Revised (this work)Sigma-70 family RNA polymerase sigma factor SigB. Pfam: Sigma70_r1_2 (PF00140.26), Sigma70_r2 (PF04542.21), Sigma70_r3 (PF04539.23), Sigma70_r4 (PF04545.23).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WGI5 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameRNA polymerase sigma factor SigB
Curated functionSigma factors are initiation factors that promote the attachment of RNA polymerase to specific initiation sites and are then released. A non-essential principal sigma factor that responds to cell envelope stress and hypoxia. Controls a regulon of about 40 genes, with another 100 genes expression being altered during SDS stress and about 50 gene being altered during diamide (oxidative) stress. RNAP reconstituted with SigA or SigB is equally susceptible to rifampicin.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category K Transcription
Preferred namesigB
eggNOG descriptionSigma factors are initiation factors that promote the attachment of RNA polymerase to specific initiation sites and are then released
Orthologous groupCOG0568
KEGG orthology K03086, K03087
KEGG pathways map02026, map05111
Gene Ontology (84) GO:0000988, GO:0000990, GO:0001666, GO:0002791, GO:0003674, GO:0005488, GO:0005515, GO:0005575, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0005829 +72 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 0.201 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 5 synonymous, 3 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
Sigma70_r1_2PF00140.26 5.7e-1225–58 Sigma-70 factor, region 1.2
Sigma70_r2PF04542.21 2.4e-2390–160 Sigma-70 region 2
Sigma70_r3PF04539.23 7.0e-26169–245 Sigma-70 region 3
Sigma70_r4PF04545.23 8.8e-19258–311 Sigma-70, region 4

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

Closest characterised functional partner: rpoA (DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit alpha), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 991 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0667 rpoB DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit beta 999 1000 experimental:999
Rv0668 rpoC DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit beta' 999 999 experimental:999
Rv3457c rpoA DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit alpha 992 991 ctx cooccurence:468 experimental:983
Rv1390 rpoZ DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit omega 985 984 experimental:983
Rv2050 rbpA RNA polymerase-binding protein RbpA 974 964 experimental:961
Rv2711 ideR iron-dependent repressor and activator IdeR 943 928 ctx neighborhood:756 coexpression:716
Rv3219 whiB1 transcriptional regulator WhiB1 880 823 experimental:821
Rv3197A whiB7 transcriptional regulator WhiB7 828 822 experimental:821
Rv2359 zur zinc uptake regulation protein 835 820 experimental:767
Rv2744c 35kd_ag hyp hypothetical protein 834 808 coexpression:801
Rv2343c dnaG DNA primase 817 793 coexpression:644
Rv3583c carD RNA polymerase-binding transcription factor CarD 802 781 experimental:765
Rv0983 pepD serine protease PepD 788 771 coexpression:710
Rv2053c fxsA transmembrane protein FxsA 778 767 coexpression:767
Rv1221 sigE ECF RNA polymerase sigma factor SigE 837 739 coexpression:738 textmining:402

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: RNA polymerase sigma factor SigB
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: sigma-70 family RNA polymerase sigma factor SigB
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Sigma70_r1_2 PF00140.26 (E=6e-12), Sigma70_r2 PF04542.21 (E=2e-23), Sigma70_r3 PF04539.23 (E=7e-26), Sigma70_r4 PF04545.23 (E=9e-19)
  • (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_217226.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Sigma70_r1_2 (PF00140.26), Sigma70_r2 (PF04542.21), Sigma70_r3 (PF04539.23), Sigma70_r4 (PF04545.23)
  • 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 COG0568
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WGI5 (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 — 143 functional partner(s); context anchor rpoA
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_002884|Rv2710|sigB
MADAPTRATTSRVDSDLDAQSPAADLVRVYLNGIGKTALLNAAGEVELAKRIEAGLYAEHLLETRKRLGENRKRDLAAVVRDGEAARRHLLEANLRLVVSLAKRYTGRGMPLLDLIQEGNLGLIRAMEKFDYTKGFKFSTYATWWIRQAITRGMADQSRTIRLPVHLVEQVNKLARIKREMHQHLGREATDEELAAESGIPIDKINDLLEHSRDPVSLDMPVGSEEEAPLGDFIEDAEAMSAENAVIAELLHTDIRSVLATLDEREHQVIRLRFGLDDGQPRTLDQIGKLFGLSRERVRQIERDVMSKLRHGERADRLRSYAS