nusA Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2841c · MTBC0 mtbc0_003020 · 347 aa · 3169051–3170094 (-) · RefSeq NP_217357.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)transcription termination/antitermination protein NusA
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationtranscription termination factor NusA
Revised (this work)Transcription termination factor NusA. Pfam: NusA_N (PF08529.17), KH_NusA_1st (PF13184.13), KH_NusA_2nd (PF26594.2).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WIV3 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameTranscription termination/antitermination protein NusA
Curated functionParticipates in both transcription termination and antitermination.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category K Transcription
Preferred namenusA
eggNOG descriptionParticipates in both transcription termination and antitermination
Orthologous groupCOG0195
KEGG orthology K02600
Gene Ontology (43) GO:0003674, GO:0003676, GO:0003723, GO:0005488, GO:0005575, GO:0005618, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0005829, GO:0005886, GO:0006355 +31 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 0.697 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 3 synonymous, 6 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
NusA_NPF08529.17 6.3e-096–61 NusA N-terminal domain
KH_NusA_1stPF13184.13 2.5e-30183–260 NusA-like first KH domain
KH_NusA_2ndPF26594.2 6.8e-24264–324 NusA-like second KH domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: rimP (ribosome maturation factor RimP), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 994 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2842c rimP ribosome maturation factor RimP 994 994 ctx neighborhood:881 coexpression:953
Rv3457c rpoA DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit alpha 993 990 ctx cooccurence:479 coexpression:755 experimental:927
Rv0667 rpoB DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit beta 991 990 coexpression:819 experimental:928
Rv0668 rpoC DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit beta' 988 986 ctx cooccurence:442 coexpression:681 experimental:919
Rv0640 rplK 50S ribosomal protein L11 983 983 coexpression:842 experimental:892
Rv0683 rpsG 30S ribosomal protein S7 972 970 coexpression:858 experimental:778
Rv0700 rpsJ 30S ribosomal protein S10 978 968 coexpression:803 experimental:790
Rv2840c hyp hypothetical protein 960 960 ctx neighborhood:760 coexpression:840
Rv0639 nusG transcription termination/antitermination protein NusG 964 954 ctx cooccurence:418 coexpression:784 experimental:652
Rv3458c rpsD 30S ribosomal protein S4 950 948 coexpression:757 experimental:793
Rv1390 rpoZ DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit omega 981 944 coexpression:413 experimental:882 textmining:675
Rv2839c infB translation initiation factor IF-2 955 942 ctx neighborhood:492 coexpression:861
Rv2890c rpsB 30S ribosomal protein S2 942 931 coexpression:839 experimental:474
Rv0707 rpsC 30S ribosomal protein S3 931 929 coexpression:844 experimental:503
Rv0715 rplX 50S ribosomal protein L24 922 922 coexpression:854 experimental:488

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: transcription termination/antitermination protein NusA
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: transcription termination factor NusA
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): NusA_N PF08529.17 (E=6e-09), KH_NusA_1st PF13184.13 (E=2e-30), KH_NusA_2nd PF26594.2 (E=7e-24)
  • (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_217357.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — NusA_N (PF08529.17), KH_NusA_1st (PF13184.13), KH_NusA_2nd (PF26594.2)
  • 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 COG0195
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WIV3 (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 — 176 functional partner(s); context anchor rimP
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003020|Rv2841c|nusA
MNIDMAALHAIEVDRGISVNELLETIKSALLTAYRHTQGHQTDARIEIDRKTGVVRVIARETDEAGNLISEWDDTPEGFGRIAATTARQVMLQRFRDAENERTYGEFSTREGEIVAGVIQRDSRANARGLVVVRIGTETKASEGVIPAAEQVPGESYEHGNRLRCYVVGVTRGAREPLITLSRTHPNLVRKLFSLEVPEIADGSVEIVAVAREAGHRSKIAVRSNVAGLNAKGACIGPMGQRVRNVMSELSGEKIDIIDYDDDPARFVANALSPAKVVSVSVIDQTARAARVVVPDFQLSLAIGKEGQNARLAARLTGWRIDIRGDAPPPPPGQPEPGVSRGMAHDR