infB Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2839c · MTBC0 mtbc0_003018 · 900 aa · 3165837–3168539 (-) · RefSeq NP_217355.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)translation initiation factor IF-2
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationtranslation initiation factor IF-2
Revised (this work)Translation initiation factor IF-2. Pfam: IF2_N (PF04760.22), GTP_EFTU (PF00009.34), MMR_HSR1 (PF01926.30), Ras (PF00071.29), EF-G_D2 (PF22042.3), IF-2 (PF11987.14).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WKK1 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameTranslation initiation factor IF-2
Curated functionOne of the essential components for the initiation of protein synthesis. Protects formylmethionyl-tRNA from spontaneous hydrolysis and promotes its binding to the 30S ribosomal subunits. Also involved in the hydrolysis of GTP during the formation of the 70S ribosomal complex (By similarity).

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category J Translation, ribosomal structure and biogenesis
Preferred nameinfB
eggNOG descriptionOne of the essential components for the initiation of protein synthesis. Protects formylmethionyl-tRNA from spontaneous hydrolysis and promotes its binding to the 30S ribosomal subunits. Also involved in the hydrolysis of GTP during the formation of the 70S ribosomal complex
Orthologous groupCOG0481
KEGG orthology K02519
Gene Ontology (11) GO:0005575, GO:0005576, GO:0005618, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0008150, GO:0016020, GO:0030312, GO:0040007, GO:0044464, GO:0071944

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 0.194 · strong purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 13 synonymous, 7 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
IF2_NPF04760.22 1.4e-135–54 Translation initiation factor IF-2, N-terminal region
GTP_EFTUPF00009.34 1.6e-33401–560 Elongation factor Tu GTP binding domain
MMR_HSR1PF01926.30 2.6e-08401–510 50S ribosome-binding GTPase
RasPF00071.29 3.9e-07402–555 Ras family
EF-G_D2PF22042.3 2.0e-26576–655 Elongation factor G domain 2
IF-2PF11987.14 3.9e-36679–791 Translation-initiation factor 2

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

Closest characterised functional partner: rbfA (ribosome-binding factor RbfA), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 997 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2838c rbfA ribosome-binding factor RbfA 998 997 ctx neighborhood:882 coexpression:969 textmining:611
Rv2890c rpsB 30S ribosomal protein S2 994 993 coexpression:743 experimental:928 database:444
Rv0704 rplB 50S ribosomal protein L2 995 992 coexpression:790 experimental:928 database:412 textmining:456
Rv0723 rplO 50S ribosomal protein L15 992 991 coexpression:764 experimental:928 database:428
Rv0683 rpsG 30S ribosomal protein S7 992 990 coexpression:681 experimental:928 database:444
Rv0721 rpsE 30S ribosomal protein S5 992 990 coexpression:695 experimental:928 database:444
Rv0702 rplD 50S ribosomal protein L4 991 990 coexpression:732 experimental:928 database:412
Rv0701 rplC 50S ribosomal protein L3 991 989 coexpression:712 experimental:923 database:412
Rv3459c rpsK 30S ribosomal protein S11 992 988 coexpression:724 experimental:928 database:429 textmining:438
Rv0708 rplP 50S ribosomal protein L16 990 988 coexpression:764 experimental:922 database:412
Rv3458c rpsD 30S ribosomal protein S4 989 986 coexpression:780 experimental:928
Rv0707 rpsC 30S ribosomal protein S3 989 985 coexpression:797 experimental:928
Rv0706 rplV 50S ribosomal protein L22 987 984 coexpression:649 experimental:928 database:418
Rv0640 rplK 50S ribosomal protein L11 986 982 coexpression:695 experimental:904 database:407
Rv3443c rplM 50S ribosomal protein L13 986 982 coexpression:521 experimental:923 database:412

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: translation initiation factor IF-2
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: translation initiation factor IF-2
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): IF2_N PF04760.22 (E=1e-13), GTP_EFTU PF00009.34 (E=2e-33), MMR_HSR1 PF01926.30 (E=3e-08), Ras PF00071.29 (E=4e-07), EF-G_D2 PF22042.3 (E=2e-26), IF-2 PF11987.14 (E=4e-36)
  • (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_217355.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — IF2_N (PF04760.22), GTP_EFTU (PF00009.34), MMR_HSR1 (PF01926.30), Ras (PF00071.29), EF-G_D2 (PF22042.3), IF-2 (PF11987.14)
  • 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 COG0481
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WKK1 (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 — 245 functional partner(s); context anchor rbfA
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003018|Rv2839c|infB
MAAGKARVHELAKELGVTSKEVLARLSEQGEFVKSASSTVEAPVARRLRESFGGSKPAPAKGTAKSPGKGPDKSLDKALDAAIDMAAGNGKATAAPAKAADSGGAAIVSPTTPAAPEPPTAVPPSPQAPHPGMAPGARPGPVPKPGIRTPRVGNNPFSSAQPADRPIPRPPAPRPGTARPGVPRPGASPGSMPPRPGGAVGGARPPRPGAPRPGGRPGAPGAGRSDAGGGNYRGGGVGAAPGTGFRGRPGGGGGGRPGQRGGAAGAFGRPGGAPRRGRKSKRQKRQEYDSMQAPVVGGVRLPHGNGETIRLARGASLSDFADKIDANPAALVQALFNLGEMVTATQSVGDETLELLGSEMNYNVQVVSPEDEDRELLESFDLSYGEDEGGEEDLQVRPPVVTVMGHVDHGKTRLLDTIRKANVREAEAGGITQHIGAYQVAVDLDGSQRLITFIDTPGHEAFTAMRARGAKATDIAILVVAADDGVMPQTVEAINHAQAADVPIVVAVNKIDKEGADPAKIRGQLTEYGLVPEEFGGDTMFVDISAKQGTNIEALEEAVLLTADAALDLRANPDMEAQGVAIEAHLDRGRGPVATVLVQRGTLRVGDSVVAGDAYGRVRRMVDEHGEDVEVALPSRPVQVIGFTSVPGAGDNFLVVDEDRIARQIADRRSARKRNALAARSRKRISLEDLDSALKETSQLNLILKGDNAGTVEALEEALMGIQVDDEVVLRVIDRGVGGITETNVNLASASDAVIIGFNVRAEGKATELASREGVEIRYYSVIYQAIDEIEQALRGLLKPIYEENQLGRAEIRALFRSSKVGLIAGCLVTSGVMRRNAKARLLRDNIVVAENLSIASLRREKDDVTEVRDGFECGLTLGYADIKEGDVIESYELVQKERA