miaB Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2733c · MTBC0 mtbc0_002907 · 512 aa · 3067401–3068939 (-) · RefSeq NP_217249.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)(dimethylallyl)adenosine tRNA methylthiotransferase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationtRNA (N6-isopentenyl adenosine(37)-C2)-methylthiotransferase MiaB
Revised (this work)TRNA (N6-isopentenyl adenosine(37)-C2)-methylthiotransferase MiaB. Pfam: UPF0004 (PF00919.27), Radical_SAM (PF04055.28).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WK05 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nametRNA-2-methylthio-N(6)-dimethylallyladenosine synthase
EC (curated) EC 2.8.4.3
Curated functionCatalyzes the methylthiolation of N6-(dimethylallyl)adenosine (i(6)A), leading to the formation of 2-methylthio-N6-(dimethylallyl)adenosine (ms(2)i(6)A) at position 37 in tRNAs that read codons beginning with uridine.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category J Translation, ribosomal structure and biogenesis
Preferred namemiaB
eggNOG descriptionCatalyzes the methylthiolation of N6- (dimethylallyl)adenosine (i(6)A), leading to the formation of 2- methylthio-N6-(dimethylallyl)adenosine (ms(2)i(6)A) at position 37 in tRNAs that read codons beginning with uridine
Orthologous groupCOG0621
EC number EC 2.8.4.3
KEGG orthology K06168

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 0.906 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 2 synonymous, 5 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
UPF0004PF00919.27 1.3e-2927–125 Uncharacterized protein family UPF0004
Radical_SAMPF04055.28 5.9e-29172–348 Radical SAM superfamily

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

Closest characterised functional partner: Rv2732c (transmembrane protein), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 882 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2732c transmembrane protein 882 882 ctx neighborhood:882
Rv2727c miaA tRNA delta(2)-isopentenylpyrophosphate transferase 939 812 ctx fusion:725 textmining:691
Rv2880c Rv2880c, (MTCY274.11c), len: 275 aa. Conserved hypothetical protein, highly similar in N-terminus to others e.g. O86754|SC6A9.22c hypothetic 760 669 ctx cooccurence:534
Rv2783c gpsI bifunctional guanosine pentaphosphate synthetase/polyribonucleotide nucleotidyltransferase 719 644 ctx cooccurence:522
Rv2879c rlmN Conserved hypothetical protein; Specifically methylates position 2 of adenine 2503 in 23S rRNA and position 2 of adenine 37 in tRNAs; Belong 734 633 ctx cooccurence:483
Rv1340 rphA ribonuclease PH 615 616 experimental:608
Rv1229c mrp multiple resistance/pH adaptation protein 655 549 ctx cooccurence:545
Rv1407 fmu 16S rRNA m5C967 methyltransferase 716 537 coexpression:430 textmining:413
Rv2444c rne ribonuclease E 551 533
Rv2903c lepB signal peptidase 518 518 coexpression:418
Rv2372c rsmE rRNA small subunit methyltransferase E 515 461
Rv2404c lepA GTP-binding protein LepA 453 453 coexpression:408
Rv1299 prfA peptide chain release factor PrfA 572 441 coexpression:423
Rv2388c hemN oxygen-independent coproporphyrinogen III oxidase 509 438
Rv2734 hyp hypothetical protein 425 426 ctx neighborhood:426

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: (dimethylallyl)adenosine tRNA methylthiotransferase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: tRNA (N6-isopentenyl adenosine(37)-C2)-methylthiotransferase MiaB
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): UPF0004 PF00919.27 (E=1e-29), Radical_SAM PF04055.28 (E=6e-29)
  • (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_217249.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — UPF0004 (PF00919.27), Radical_SAM (PF04055.28)
  • 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 COG0621
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WK05 (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 — 41 functional partner(s); context anchor Rv2732c
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_002907|Rv2733c|miaB
MVAHDAAAGVTGEGAGPPVRRAPARTYQVRTYGCQMNVHDSERLAGLLEAAGYRRATDGSEADVVVFNTCAVRENADNRLYGNLSHLAPRKRANPDMQIAVGGCLAQKDRDAVLRRAPWVDVVFGTHNIGSLPTLLERARHNKVAQVEIAEALQQFPSSLPSSRESAYAAWVSISVGCNNSCTFCIVPSLRGREVDRSPADILAEVRSLVNDGVLEVTLLGQNVNAYGVSFADPALPRNRGAFAELLRACGDIDGLERVRFTSPHPAEFTDDVIEAMAQTRNVCPALHMPLQSGSDRILRAMRRSYRAERYLGIIERVRAAIPHAAITTDLIVGFPGETEEDFAATLDVVRRARFAAAFTFQYSKRPGTPAAQLDGQLPKAVVQERYERLIALQEQISLEANRALVGQAVEVLVATGEGRKDTVTARMSGRARDGRLVHFTAGQPRVRPGDVITTKVTEAAPHHLIADAGVLTHRRTRAGDAHTAGQPGRAVGLGMPGVGLPVSAAKPGGCR