cobB Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2848c · MTBC0 mtbc0_003027 · 457 aa · 3176814–3178187 (-) · RefSeq NP_217364.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)cobyrinic acid A,C-diamide synthase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationcobyrinate a%2Cc-diamide synthase
Revised (this work)Cobyrinate a%2Cc-diamide synthase. Pfam: CbiA (PF01656.30), AAA_26 (PF13500.13), GATase_3 (PF07685.21).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WP97 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameHydrogenobyrinate a,c-diamide synthase
EC (curated) EC 6.3.5.9
Curated functionCatalyzes the ATP-dependent amidation of the two carboxylate groups at positions a and c of hydrogenobyrinate, using either L-glutamine or ammonia as the nitrogen source.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category H Coenzyme transport and metabolism
Preferred namecobB
eggNOG descriptionCatalyzes the ATP-dependent amidation of the two carboxylate groups at positions a and c of hydrogenobyrinate, using either L-glutamine or ammonia as the nitrogen source
Orthologous groupCOG1797
EC number EC 6.3.5.11, EC 6.3.5.9
KEGG orthology K02224
KEGG pathways map00860, map01100, map01120
Gene Ontology (6) GO:0005575, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0016020, 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) pseudogene candidate

pN/pS 0.473 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 4 synonymous, 5 missense, 0 nonsense, 2 frameshift
Disruption 2 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 25.78% of strains (37434) · 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
CbiAPF01656.30 5.3e-216–193 CobQ/CobB/MinD/ParA nucleotide binding domain
AAA_26PF13500.13 3.7e-07109–189 AAA domain
GATase_3PF07685.21 6.2e-25256–435 CobB/CobQ-like glutamine amidotransferase domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: cobO (cob(I)alamin adenosyltransferase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 996 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2849c cobO cob(I)alamin adenosyltransferase 999 996 ctx neighborhood:881 cooccurence:611 database:900 textmining:850
Rv2065 cobH precorrin-8X methylmutase 997 994 ctx fusion:547 cooccurence:767 coexpression:408 database:900 textmining:653
Rv2062c cobN cobalamin biosynthesis protein CobN 982 965 ctx cooccurence:507 database:900 textmining:519
Rv2231c cobC aminotransferase 963 960 ctx fusion:900 cooccurence:427
Rv0255c cobQ1 cobyric acid synthase 968 958 ctx fusion:667 cooccurence:766 coexpression:426
Rv2066 cobIJ bifunctional S-adenosyl-L-methionine-precorrin-2 methyl transferase/precorrin-3 methylase 959 912 ctx cooccurence:755 coexpression:463 textmining:554
Rv1314c cob(I)yrinic acid a,c-diamide adenosyltransferase 915 908 database:900
Rv2850c magnesium chelatase 988 903 ctx neighborhood:857 textmining:889
Rv2207 cobT nicotinate-nucleotide-dimethylbenzimidazol phosphoribosyltransferase 922 899 ctx fusion:497 cooccurence:623 coexpression:440
Rv2071c cobM precorrin-4 C(11)-methyltransferase 940 879 ctx cooccurence:771 coexpression:406 textmining:533
Rv0254c cobU bifunctional cobinamide kinase/cobinamide phosphate guanylyltransferase 931 879 ctx cooccurence:624 coexpression:649 textmining:457
Rv2236c cobD cobalamin biosynthesis transmembrane protein CobD 899 869 ctx cooccurence:771
Rv2851c GCN5-like N-acetyltransferase 981 860 ctx neighborhood:857 textmining:870
Rv2847c cysG multifunctional uroporphyrin-III C-methyltransferase/precorrin-2 oxidase/ferrochelatase 921 850 ctx neighborhood:721 cooccurence:477 textmining:499
Rv2072c cobL precorrin-6Y C(5,15)-methyltransferase 934 822 ctx cooccurence:699 textmining:647

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: cobyrinic acid A,C-diamide synthase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: cobyrinate a%2Cc-diamide synthase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): CbiA PF01656.30 (E=5e-21), AAA_26 PF13500.13 (E=4e-07), GATase_3 PF07685.21 (E=6e-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_217364.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — CbiA (PF01656.30), AAA_26 (PF13500.13), GATase_3 (PF07685.21)
  • 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 COG1797
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WP97 (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 — 35 functional partner(s); context anchor cobO
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003027|Rv2848c|cobB
MRVSAVAVAAPASGSGKTTIATGLIGALRQAGHTVAPFKVGPDFIDPGYHALAAGRPGRNLDPVLVGERLIGPLYAHGVAGADIAVIEGVLGLFDGRIGPAGGAPAAGSTAHVAALLGAPVILVVDARGQSHSVAALLHGFSTFDTATRIAGVILNRVGSARHEQVLRQACDQAGVAVLGAIPRTAELELPTRYLGLVTAVEYGRRARLAVQAMTAVVARHVDLAAVIACAGSQAAHPPWDPVIAVGNTARQPATVAIAAGRAFTFGYAEHAEMLRAAGAEVVEFDPLSETLPEGTDAVVLPGGFPEQFTAELSANDTVRRQINELAAAGAPVHAECAGLLYLVSELDGHPMCGVVAGSARFTQHLKLGYRDAVAVVDSALYSVGERVVGHEFHRTAVTFADSYQPAWVYQGQDVDDVRDGAVHSGVHASYLHTHPAATPGAVARFVAHAACNTPRA