recA Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2737c · MTBC0 mtbc0_002911 · 790 aa · 3071467–3073839 (-) · RefSeq NP_217253.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)recombinase A
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationintein-containing recombinase RecA
Revised (this work)Intein-containing recombinase RecA. Pfam: RecA_N (PF00154.28), Rad51 (PF08423.18), Intein_splicing (PF14890.12), LAGLIDADG_3 (PF14528.12), RecA_C (PF21096.3).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WHJ3 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameProtein RecA
EC (curated) EC 3.1.-.-
Curated functionCan catalyze the hydrolysis of ATP in the presence of single-stranded DNA, the ATP-dependent uptake of single-stranded DNA by duplex DNA, and the ATP-dependent hybridization of homologous single-stranded DNAs. It interacts with LexA causing its activation and leading to its autocatalytic cleavage.; FUNCTION: PI-MtuI is an endonuclease.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category L Replication, recombination and repair
Preferred namerecA
eggNOG descriptionCan catalyze the hydrolysis of ATP in the presence of single-stranded DNA, the ATP-dependent uptake of single-stranded DNA by duplex DNA, and the ATP-dependent hybridization of homologous single-stranded DNAs. It interacts with LexA causing its activation and leading to its autocatalytic cleavage
Orthologous groupCOG0468
KEGG orthology K03553
KEGG pathways map03440
KEGG modules M00729
Gene Ontology (89) GO:0000150, GO:0000166, GO:0000287, GO:0000725, GO:0003674, GO:0003676, GO:0003677, GO:0003697, GO:0003824, GO:0004518, GO:0004519, GO:0004520 +77 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 0.253 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 12 synonymous, 9 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
RecA_NPF00154.28 3.0e-1319–252 RecA N-terminal domain
Rad51PF08423.18 2.5e-0635–259 Rad51
Intein_splicingPF14890.12 6.2e-10268–691 Intein splicing domain
LAGLIDADG_3PF14528.12 2.6e-12464–554 LAGLIDADG-like domain
RecA_CPF21096.3 7.0e-25713–769 RecA C-terminal domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: recX (regulatory protein RecX), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 998 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2736c recX regulatory protein RecX 999 998 ctx neighborhood:881 coexpression:984 textmining:865
Rv1629 polA DNA polymerase I 996 987 coexpression:460 experimental:898 database:585 textmining:750
Rv2720 lexA repressor LexA 998 977 coexpression:855 experimental:829 textmining:958
Rv3585 radA DNA repair protein RadA 979 939 coexpression:926 textmining:686
Rv2090 5'-3' exonuclease 952 926 ctx cooccurence:537 experimental:455 database:585
Rv0002 dnaN DNA polymerase III subunit beta 935 860 coexpression:434 experimental:436 database:564 textmining:561
Rv2116 lppK lipoprotein LppK 898 859 coexpression:430 experimental:436 database:564
Rv1277 hyp hypothetical protein 908 853 experimental:449 database:635 textmining:406
Rv2101 helZ helicase HelZ 944 852 experimental:841 textmining:638
Rv3646c topA DNA topoisomerase I 954 844 experimental:446 database:635 textmining:720
Rv2735c hyp hypothetical protein 901 841 ctx neighborhood:801 textmining:403
Rv1278 hyp hypothetical protein 859 816 experimental:421 database:635
Rv3394c hyp hypothetical protein 826 808 experimental:439 database:523
Rv2529 hyp hypothetical protein 851 806 experimental:528 database:594
Rv1537 dinX DNA polymerase IV 967 800 experimental:439 database:523 textmining:845

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: recombinase A
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: intein-containing recombinase RecA
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): RecA_N PF00154.28 (E=3e-131), Rad51 PF08423.18 (E=3e-06), Intein_splicing PF14890.12 (E=6e-10), LAGLIDADG_3 PF14528.12 (E=3e-12), RecA_C PF21096.3 (E=7e-25)
  • (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_217253.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — RecA_N (PF00154.28), Rad51 (PF08423.18), Intein_splicing (PF14890.12), LAGLIDADG_3 (PF14528.12), RecA_C (PF21096.3)
  • 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 COG0468
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WHJ3 (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 — 296 functional partner(s); context anchor recX
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_002911|Rv2737c|recA
MTQTPDREKALELAVAQIEKSYGKGSVMRLGDEARQPISVIPTGSIALDVALGIGGLPRGRVIEIYGPESSGKTTVALHAVANAQAAGGVAAFIDAEHALDPDYAKKLGVDTDSLLVSQPDTGEQALEIADMLIRSGALDIVVIDSVAALVPRAELEGEMGDSHVGLQARLMSQALRKMTGALNNSGTTAIFINQLRDKIGVMFGSPETTTGGKALKFYASVRMDVRRVETLKDGTNAVGNRTRVKVVKNKCLAEGTRIFDPVTGTTHRIEDVVDGRKPIHVVAAAKDGTLHARPVVSWFDQGTRDVIGLRIAGGAIVWATPDHKVLTEYGWRAAGELRKGDRVAQPRRFDGFGDSAPIPADHARLLGYLIGDGRDGWVGGKTPINFINVQRALIDDVTRIAATLGCAAHPQGRISLAIAHRPGERNGVADLCQQAGIYGKLAWEKTIPNWFFEPDIAADIVGNLLFGLFESDGWVSREQTGALRVGYTTTSEQLAHQIHWLLLRFGVGSTVRDYDPTQKRPSIVNGRRIQSKRQVFEVRISGMDNVTAFAESVPMWGPRGAALIQAIPEATQGRRRGSQATYLAAEMTDAVLNYLDERGVTAQEAAAMIGVASGDPRGGMKQVLGASRLRRDRVQALADALDDKFLHDMLAEELRYSVIREVLPTRRARTFDLEVEELHTLVAEGVVVHNCSPPFKQAEFDILYGKGISREGSLIDMGVDQGLIRKSGAWFTYEGEQLGQGKENARNFLVENADVADEIEKKIKEKLGIGAVVTDDPSNDGVLPAPVDF