dprA Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2896c · MTBC0 mtbc0_003078 · 389 aa · 3226094–3227263 (-) · RefSeq NP_217412.2

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)hypothetical protein
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationDNA-processing protein DprA
Revised (this work)DNA-processing protein DprA. Pfam: DNA_processg_A (PF02481.22), WHD_DprA (PF17782.8).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WL29 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt namePutative DNA processing protein DprA
Curated functionMay help load RecA onto ssDNA (By similarity).

UniProt still lists this protein as Putative DNA processing protein DprA; the revised annotation above is ahead of the current UniProt record.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category L Replication, recombination and repair
U Intracellular trafficking, secretion and vesicular transport
Preferred namedprA
eggNOG descriptionDNA protecting protein DprA
Orthologous groupCOG0758
KEGG orthology K04096

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 0.529 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 3 synonymous, 4 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
DNA_processg_APF02481.22 2.4e-6775–296 DNA recombination-mediator protein A
WHD_DprAPF17782.8 1.2e-05309–367 DprA winged helix domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: viuB (mycobactin utilization protein ViuB), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 837 excluding text-mining). This association is the citable seed of a function hypothesis for this hypothetical protein.

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2897c hyp hypothetical protein 977 972 ctx neighborhood:882 cooccurence:602
Rv2898c hyp hypothetical protein 938 939 ctx neighborhood:882
Rv1364c sigma factor regulatory protein 922 922 coexpression:918
Rv2895c viuB mycobactin utilization protein ViuB 836 837 ctx neighborhood:836
Rv2551c hyp hypothetical protein 758 684 coexpression:659
Rv3242c hyp hypothetical protein 753 678 coexpression:509
Rv1354c hyp hypothetical protein 662 660 coexpression:649
Rv2894c xerC tyrosine recombinase XerC 672 652 ctx neighborhood:578
Rv2737c recA recombinase A 720 634
Rv2414c hyp hypothetical protein 711 623 coexpression:443
Rv2900c fdhF formate dehydrogenase subunit alpha FdhF 575 574 ctx neighborhood:570
Rv2899c fdhD formate dehydrogenase accessory protein FdhD 533 533 ctx neighborhood:531
Rv0050 ponA1 bifunctional penicillin-insensitive transglycosylase/penicillin-sensitive transpeptidase 523 504 ctx cooccurence:504
Rv2973c recG ATP-dependent DNA helicase RecG 493 493 ctx cooccurence:490
Rv2901c hyp hypothetical protein 475 475 ctx neighborhood:473

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: hypothetical protein
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: DNA-processing protein DprA
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): DNA_processg_A PF02481.22 (E=2e-67), WHD_DprA PF17782.8 (E=1e-05)
  • (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_217412.2)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — DNA_processg_A (PF02481.22), WHD_DprA (PF17782.8)
  • 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 COG0758
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WL29 (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 — 49 functional partner(s); context anchor viuB
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003078|Rv2896c|dprA
MIDPTARAWAYLSRVAEPPCAQLAALVRCVGPVEAADRVRRGQVGNELAQHTGARREIDRAADDLELLMRRGGRLITPDDDEWPVLAFAAFSGAGARARPCGHSPLVLWALGPARLDEVAPRAAAVVGTRAATAYGEHVAADLAAGLAERDVAVVSGGAYGIDGAAHRAALDSEGITVAVLAGGFDIPYPAGHSALLHRIAQHGVLFTEYPPGVRPARHRFLTRNRLVAAVARAAVVVEAGLRSGAANTAAWARALGRVVAAVPGPVTSSASAGCHTLLRHGAELVTRADDIVEFVGHIGELAGDEPRPGAALDVLSEAERQVYEALPGRGAATIDEIAVGSGLLPAQVLGPLAILEVAGLAECRDGRWRILRAGAGQAAAKGAAARLV