ppsA Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2931 · MTBC0 mtbc0_003114 · 1876 aa · 3266442–3272072 (+) · RefSeq NP_217447.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)phthiocerol synthesis polyketide synthase type I PpsA
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationphthiocerol type I polyketide synthase PpsA
Revised (this work)Phthiocerol type I polyketide synthase PpsA. Pfam: ketoacyl-synt (PF00109.33), Ketoacyl-synt_C (PF02801.29), KAsynt_C_assoc (PF16197.12), Acyl_transf_1 (PF00698.27), PKS_DH_N (PF21089.4), KR (PF08659.17), PP-binding (PF00550.32).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WQE7 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt namePhenolphthiocerol/phthiocerol polyketide synthase subunit A
EC (curated) EC 2.3.1.292
Curated functionPart of the PpsABCDE complex involved in the biosynthesis of the lipid core common to phthiocerols and phenolphthiocerols by successive additions of malonyl-CoA or methylmalonyl-CoA extender units. PpsA can accept as substrate the activated forms of either icosanoyl (C20), docosanoyl (C22) or lignoceroyl (C24) groups from FadD26, or a (4-hydroxyphenyl)-C17 or (4-hydroxyphenyl)-C19 fatty acyl from FadD29. PpsA initiates the biosynthesis and extends its substrate using a malonyl-CoA extender unit. The PpsB and PpsC proteins add the second and third malonyl-CoA extender units. PpsD adds an (R)-me.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category Q Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport and catabolism
Preferred nameppsA
eggNOG descriptionsynthase
Orthologous groupCOG1020
EC number EC 2.3.1.261
KEGG orthology K12430, K12440, K12441
Gene Ontology (87) GO:0000036, GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0004312, GO:0004315, GO:0004316, GO:0005488, GO:0005575, GO:0005618, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737 +75 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 0.362 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 26 synonymous, 27 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
ketoacyl-syntPF00109.33 3.0e-98102–351 Beta-ketoacyl synthase, N-terminal domain
Ketoacyl-synt_CPF02801.29 2.7e-45359–477 Beta-ketoacyl synthase, C-terminal domain
KAsynt_C_assocPF16197.12 6.5e-16480–584 Ketoacyl-synthetase C-terminal extension
Acyl_transf_1PF00698.27 1.7e-124632–950 Acyl transferase domain
PKS_DH_NPF21089.4 6.2e-08995–1079 Polyketide synthase dehydratase domain
KRPF08659.17 2.4e-601491–1683 KR domain
PP-bindingPF00550.32 1.1e-161767–1832 Phosphopantetheine attachment site

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

Closest characterised functional partner: fas (fatty acid synthase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 1000 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2524c fas fatty acid synthase 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:511 coexpression:777 experimental:994 database:549 textmining:519
Rv2932 ppsB phthiocerol synthesis polyketide synthase type I PpsB 997 996 ctx neighborhood:800 coexpression:802 database:900
Rv2930 fadD26 fatty-acid--CoA ligase FadD26 998 994 ctx neighborhood:801 coexpression:825 database:650 textmining:814
Rv2933 ppsC phthiocerol synthesis polyketide synthase type I PpsC 994 992 ctx neighborhood:813 experimental:414 database:900
Rv2935 ppsE phthiocerol synthesis polyketide synthase type I PpsE 991 989 ctx neighborhood:798 database:900
Rv2934 ppsD phthiocerol synthesis polyketide synthase type I PpsD 983 981 ctx neighborhood:778 database:900
Rv2383c mbtB phenyloxazoline synthase 990 979 ctx neighborhood:544 coexpression:877 experimental:473 textmining:591
Rv2243 fabD malonyl CoA-acyl carrier protein transacylase 964 961 coexpression:604 experimental:787 database:549
Rv0101 nrp peptide synthetase Nrp 964 950 ctx cooccurence:562 coexpression:767 experimental:473
Rv2928 tesA thioesterase TesA 934 907 ctx cooccurence:705 database:500
Rv2380c mbtE peptide synthetase 884 873 ctx cooccurence:557 coexpression:446 experimental:473
Rv2950c fadD29 long-chain-fatty-acid--AMP ligase FadD29 875 861 database:650
Rv3147 nuoC NADH-quinone oxidoreductase subunit C 862 857 coexpression:427 experimental:472 database:564
Rv1181 pks4 polyketide beta-ketoacyl synthase 884 852 database:720
Rv3153 nuoI NADH-quinone oxidoreductase subunit I 857 851 coexpression:402 experimental:473 database:564

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: phthiocerol synthesis polyketide synthase type I PpsA
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: phthiocerol type I polyketide synthase PpsA
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): ketoacyl-synt PF00109.33 (E=3e-98), Ketoacyl-synt_C PF02801.29 (E=3e-45), KAsynt_C_assoc PF16197.12 (E=7e-16), Acyl_transf_1 PF00698.27 (E=2e-124), PKS_DH_N PF21089.4 (E=6e-08), KR PF08659.17 (E=2e-60), PP-binding PF00550.32 (E=1e-16)
  • (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_217447.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — ketoacyl-synt (PF00109.33), Ketoacyl-synt_C (PF02801.29), KAsynt_C_assoc (PF16197.12), Acyl_transf_1 (PF00698.27), PKS_DH_N (PF21089.4), KR (PF08659.17), PP-binding (PF00550.32)
  • 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 COG1020
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WQE7 (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 — 234 functional partner(s); context anchor fas
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003114|Rv2931|ppsA
MTGSISGEADLRHWLIDYLVTNIGCTPDEVDPDLSLADLGVSSRDAVVLSGELSELLGRTVSPIDFWEHPTINALAAYLAAPEPSPDSDAAVKRGARNSLDEPIAVVGMGCRFPGGISCPEALWDFLCERRSSISQVPPQRWQPFEGGPPEVAAALARTTRWGSFLPDIDAFDAEFFEISPSEADKMDPQQRLLLEVAWEALEHAGIPPGTLRRSATGVFAGACLSEYGAMASADLSQVDGWSNSGGAMSIIANRLSYFLDLRGPSVAVDTACSSSLVAIHLACQSLRTQDCHLAIAAGVNLLLSPAVFRGFDQVGALSPTGQCRAFDATADGFVRGEGAGVVVLKRLTDAQRDGDRVLAVICGSAVNQDGRSNGLMAPNPAAQMAVLRAAYTNAGMQPSEVDYVEAHGTGTLLGDPIEARALGTVLGRGRPEDSPLLIGSVKTNLGHTEAAAGIAGFIKTVLAVQHGQIPPNQHFETANPHIPFTDLRMKVVDTQTEWPATGHPRRAGVSSFGFGGTNAHVVIEQGQEVRPAPGQGLSPAVSTLVVAGKTMQRVSATAGMLADWMEGPGADVALADVAHTLNHHRSRQPKFGTVVARDRTQAIAGLRALAAGQHAPGVVNPAEGSPGPGTVFVYSGRGSQWAGMGRQLLADEPAFAAAVAELEPVFVEQAGFSLHDVLANGEELVGIEQIQLGLIGMQLALTELWCSYGVRPDLVIGHSMGEVAAAVVAGALTPAEGLRVTATRSRLMAPLSGQGGMALLELDAPTTEALIADFPQVTLGIYNSPRQTVIAGPTEQIDELITRVRARDRFASRVNIEVAPHNPAMDALQPAMRSELADLTPRTPTIGIISTTYADLHTQPVFDAEHWATNMRNPVHFQQAIASAGSGADGAYHTFIEISAHPLLTQAIIDTLHSAQPGARYTSLGTLQRDTDDVVTFRTNLNKAHTIHPPHTPHPPEPHPPIPTTPWQHTRHWITTKYPAGSVGSAPRAGTLLGQHTTVATVSASPPSHLWQARLAPDAKPYQGGHRFHQVEVVPASVVLHTILSAATELGYSALSEVRFEQPIFADRPRLIQVVADNRAISLASSPAAGTPSDRWTRHVTAQLSSSPSDSASSLNEHHRANGQPPERAHRDLIPDLAELLAMRGIDGLPFSWTVASWTQHSSNLTVAIDLPEALPEGSTGPLLDAAVHLAALSDVADSRLYVPASIEQISLGDVVTGPRSSVTLNRTAHDDDGITVDVTVAAHGEVPSLSMRSLRYRALDFGLDVGRAQPPASTGPVEAYCDATNFVHTIDWQPQTVPDATHPGAEQVTHPGPVAIIGDDGAALCETLEGAGYQPAVMSDGVSQARYVVYVADSDPAGADETDVDFAVRICTEITGLVRTLAERDADKPAALWILTRGVHESVAPSALRQSFLWGLAGVIAAEHPELWGGLVDLAINDDLGEFGPALAELLAKPSKSILVRRDGVVLAPALAPVRGEPARKSLQCRPDAAYLITGGLGALGLLMADWLADRGAHRLVLTGRTPLPPRRDWQLDTLDTELRRRIDAIRALEMRGVTVEAVAADVGCREDVQALLAARDRDGAAPIRGIIHAAGITNDQLVTSMTGDAVRQVMWPKIGGSQVLHDAFPPGSVDFFYLTASAAGIFGIPGQGSYAAANSYLDALARARRQQGCHTMSLDWVAWRGLGLAADAQLVSEELARMGSRDITPSEAFTAWEFVDGYDVAQAVVVPMPAPAGADGSGANAYLLPARNWSVMAATEVRSELEQGLRRIIAAELRVPEKELDTDRPFAELGLNSLMAMAIRREAEQFVGIELSATMLFNHPTVKSLASYLAKRVAPHDVSQDNQISALSSSAGSVLDSLFDRIESAPPEAERSV