recG Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv2973c · MTBC0 mtbc0_003158 · 737 aa · 3348908–3351121 (-) · RefSeq NP_217489.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)ATP-dependent DNA helicase RecG
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationATP-dependent DNA helicase RecG
Revised (this work)ATP-dependent DNA helicase RecG. Pfam: RecG_wedge (PF17191.11), ResIII (PF04851.22), DEAD (PF00270.36), Helicase_C (PF00271.38).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WMQ7 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameATP-dependent DNA helicase RecG
EC (curated) EC 5.6.2.3, EC 5.6.2.4
Curated functionPlays a critical role in recombination and DNA repair (Probable). Helps process Holliday junction (HJ) intermediates to mature products by catalyzing branch migration. Has replication fork regression activity, able to displace proteins bound to DNA. An ATP-dependent helicase with a preference for HJ DNA, followed by lagging strand replication forks (RF). Has DNA helicase activity in both directions in vitro. Unwinds branched DNA substrates such as HJs to flayed complexes, unwinds full RFs, R-loop and D-loops, has weak and strong unwinding activities on leading and lagging strand RFs respective.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category L Replication, recombination and repair
Preferred namerecG
eggNOG descriptionCritical role in recombination and DNA repair. Helps process Holliday junction intermediates to mature products by catalyzing branch migration. Has a DNA unwinding activity characteristic of a DNA helicase with a 3'- to 5'- polarity. Unwinds branched duplex DNA (Y-DNA)
Orthologous groupCOG1200
EC number EC 3.6.4.12
KEGG orthology K03655
KEGG pathways map03440
Gene Ontology (41) GO:0003674, GO:0003724, GO:0003824, GO:0004004, GO:0004386, GO:0005575, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0005886, GO:0006139, GO:0006725 +29 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 0.275 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 5 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
RecG_wedgePF17191.11 7.6e-0720–136 RecG wedge domain
ResIIIPF04851.22 2.5e-09287–459 Type III restriction enzyme, res subunit
DEADPF00270.36 2.8e-22292–464 DEAD/DEAH box helicase
Helicase_CPF00271.38 1.9e-17548–628 Helicase conserved C-terminal domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: murB (UDP-N-acetylenolpyruvoylglucosamine reductase), medium confidence from genomic context alone (score 531 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2974c hyp hypothetical protein 944 944 ctx neighborhood:800 coexpression:732
Rv2972c hyp hypothetical protein 929 929 ctx neighborhood:881 coexpression:431
Rv2975c hyp hypothetical protein 801 801 ctx neighborhood:800
Rv0482 murB UDP-N-acetylenolpyruvoylglucosamine reductase 531 531 ctx cooccurence:430
Rv2896c dprA hyp hypothetical protein 493 493 ctx cooccurence:490
Rv0720 rplR 50S ribosomal protein L18 490 490 ctx cooccurence:488
Rv2158c murE UDP-N-acetylmuramoylalanyl-D-glutamate--2,6-diaminopimelate ligase 462 463 ctx cooccurence:445
Rv2154c ftsW lipid II flippase FtsW 458 458 ctx cooccurence:430
Rv0050 ponA1 bifunctional penicillin-insensitive transglycosylase/penicillin-sensitive transpeptidase 445 446 ctx cooccurence:421
Rv3646c topA DNA topoisomerase I 656 439 textmining:413
Rv2157c murF UDP-N-acetylmuramoyl-tripeptide--D-alanyl-D-alanine ligase 437 437 ctx cooccurence:415
Rv1407 fmu 16S rRNA m5C967 methyltransferase 445 425
Rv3682 ponA2 bifunctional penicillin-insensitive transglycosylase/penicillin-sensitive transpeptidase 425 425
Rv2343c dnaG DNA primase 496 420 coexpression:420
Rv2710 sigB RNA polymerase sigma factor SigB 438 408

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: ATP-dependent DNA helicase RecG
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: ATP-dependent DNA helicase RecG
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): RecG_wedge PF17191.11 (E=8e-07), ResIII PF04851.22 (E=3e-09), DEAD PF00270.36 (E=3e-22), Helicase_C PF00271.38 (E=2e-17)
  • (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_217489.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — RecG_wedge (PF17191.11), ResIII (PF04851.22), DEAD (PF00270.36), Helicase_C (PF00271.38)
  • 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 COG1200
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WMQ7 (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 — 53 functional partner(s); context anchor murB
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003158|Rv2973c|recG
MASLSDRLDRVLGATAADALDEQFGMRTVDDLLRHYPRSYVEGAARVGIGDARPEAGEHITIVDVITDTYSFPMKKKPNRKCLRITVGGGRNKVTATFFNADYIMRDLTKHTKVMLSGEVGYYKGAMQLTHPAFLILDSPDGKNHGTRSLKSIADASKAISGELVVEEFERRFFPIYPASTKVQSWDIFKCVRQVLDVLDRVDDPLPAELRAKHGLIPEDEALRAIHLAESQSLRERARERLTFDEAVGLQWALVARRHGELSESGPSAAWKSNGLAAELLRRLPFELTAGQREVLDVLSDGLAANRPLNRLLQGEVGSGKTIVAVLAMLQMVDAGYQCALLAPTEVLAAQHLRSIRDVLGPLAMGGQLGGAENATRVALLTGSMTAGQKKQVRAEIASGQVGIVIGTHALLQEAVDFHNLGMVVVDEQHRFGVEQRDQLRAKAPAGITPHLLVMTATPIPRTVALTVYGDLETSTLRELPLGRQPIATNVIFVKDKPAWLDRAWRRIIEEAAAGRQAYVVAPRIDESDDTDVQGGVRPSATAEGLFSRLRSAELAELRLALMHGRLSADDKDAAMAAFRAGEVDVLVCTTVIEVGVDVPNATVMLVMDADRFGISQLHQLRGRIGRGEHPSVCLLASWVPPDTPAGQRLRAVAGTMDGFALADLDLKERKEGDVLGRNQSGKAITLRLLSLAEHEEYIVAARDFCIEAYKNPTDPALALMAARFTSTDRIEYLDKS