PPE43 Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2768c · MTBC0 - · 394 aa · 3076894–3078078 (-) · RefSeq YP_177906.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)PPE family protein PPE43
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)PPE family protein PPE43. Pfam: PPE (PF00823.26), PPE-SVP (PF12484.14).

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

Annotated on the H37Rv protein: this gene has no 1:1 ancestral MTBC0 anchor (PE/PPE, paralogue, IS element, or otherwise unanchored CDS).

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt Q79FA9 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Inferred from homology
UniProt namePPE family protein PPE43

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category N Cell motility
eggNOG descriptionPolymorphic PE/PPE proteins C terminal
Orthologous groupCOG5651

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 1.823 · diversifying/relaxed
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 1 synonymous, 5 missense, 0 nonsense, 2 frameshift
Disruption 2 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.45% of strains (650) · 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
PPEPF00823.26 1.7e-622–164 PPE family
PPE-SVPPF12484.14 1.3e-19311–390 PPE-SVP subfamily C-terminal region

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

Closest characterised functional partner: Rv2767c (membrane protein), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 891 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1040c PE8 PE family protein PE8 907 899 experimental:891
Rv1794 espG5 hyp hypothetical protein 891 892 experimental:891
Rv2767c membrane protein 922 891 ctx neighborhood:475 coexpression:800
Rv2769c PE27 PE family protein PE27 796 593 ctx neighborhood:593 textmining:521
Rv2766c short-chain type dehydrogenase/reductase 494 494 ctx neighborhood:475
Rv0115 hddA D-alpha-D-heptose-7-phosphate kinase HddA 659 54 textmining:655
Rv2588c yajC membrane protein secretion factor YajC 698 47 textmining:697
Rv2589 gabT 4-aminobutyrate aminotransferase 860 46 textmining:860
Rv3778c aminotransferase 728 44 textmining:728
Rv1535 hyp hypothetical protein 657 41 textmining:657
Rv3477 PE31 PE family protein PE31 528 41 textmining:528
Rv0116c ldtA L,D-transpeptidase LdtA 511 41 textmining:511

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

  • Annotation from H37Rv (no MTBC0 1:1 anchor; H37Rv protein used): PPE family protein PPE43
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): PPE PF00823.26 (E=2e-62), PPE-SVP PF12484.14 (E=1e-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 YP_177906.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — PPE (PF00823.26), PPE-SVP (PF12484.14)
  • 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 COG5651
  • Curated reference: UniProt Q79FA9 (TrEMBL, unreviewed; 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 — 12 functional partner(s); context anchor Rv2767c
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv2768c|PPE43
MDFGALPPEINSTRMYAGAGAAPLMAAGATWNGLAVELSTTASSVESVIMQLTTEQWLGPASMSMVVAAQPYLAWLTYTAESAAHAAAQAMASAAAFEAAFAMTVPPAEVAANRALLAALVATNVLGQNTPAIMATEAHYGEMWAQDALAMYGYAASSAAAGRLNPLITPSQTANMAGLAGQAAAVSHAAAASTVQQVGLGSLISNLPNAVMGFASPLTSAADAAGLGGIIQDIEELLGITFVQNAINGAVNTTAWFVMATIPNAVFLGHAFAALNPATVTAAADAVPAAAAAAGLAHTVTPVGVGGASLTASLGEASSVGGLSVPAGWSTAAPAMTSGTTALEGSGWAVPEEAGPVAAMPGMAGISGAAKGAGAYAGPRYGFKPIVMPKQVVV