ilvN Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3002c · MTBC0 mtbc0_003191 · 168 aa · 3381933–3382439 (-) · RefSeq NP_217518.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)acetolactate synthase small subunit
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationacetolactate synthase small subunit
Revised (this work)Acetolactate synthase small subunit. Pfam: ACT (PF01842.32), ACT_AHAS_ss (PF22629.3), ACT_5 (PF13710.13), ALS_ss_C (PF10369.16).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WKJ3 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt namePutative acetolactate synthase small subunit
EC (curated) EC 2.2.1.6
Curated functionCatalyzes the conversion of 2 pyruvate molecules into acetolactate in the first common step of the biosynthetic pathway of the branched-amino acids such as leucine, isoleucine, and valine.

UniProt still lists this protein as Putative acetolactate synthase small subunit; the revised annotation above is ahead of the current UniProt record.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category E Amino acid transport and metabolism
Preferred nameilvN
eggNOG descriptionacetolactate synthase, small
Orthologous groupCOG0440
EC number EC 2.2.1.6
KEGG orthology K01653
KEGG pathways map00290, map00650, map00660, map00770, map01100, map01110, map01130, map01210, map01230
KEGG modules M00019, M00570
Gene Ontology (52) GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0003984, GO:0005575, GO:0005618, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0005829, GO:0005886, GO:0005948, GO:0006082 +40 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 n/a
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 0 synonymous, 1 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
ACTPF01842.32 1.2e-176–71 ACT domain
ACT_AHAS_ssPF22629.3 1.5e-278–75 AHAS small subunit-like ACT domain
ACT_5PF13710.13 2.1e-1415–76 ACT domain
ALS_ss_CPF10369.16 6.5e-2887–160 Small subunit of acetolactate synthase

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

Closest characterised functional partner: ilvB1 (acetolactate synthase large subunit IlvB), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 1000 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3003c ilvB1 acetolactate synthase large subunit IlvB 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:882 cooccurence:769 coexpression:919 experimental:704 database:900 textmining:907
Rv3001c ilvC ketol-acid reductoisomerase 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:823 cooccurence:719 coexpression:951 database:900 textmining:938
Rv3470c ilvB2 acetolactate synthase large subunit 997 997 ctx cooccurence:731 coexpression:648 experimental:704 database:900
Rv1820 ilvG acetolactate synthase large subunit IlvG 998 993 coexpression:650 experimental:704 database:900 textmining:740
Rv3509c ilvX acetohydroxyacid synthase large subunit 995 992 coexpression:648 experimental:704 database:900 textmining:490
Rv2995c leuB 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase 995 985 coexpression:768 database:900 textmining:714
Rv1559 ilvA threonine dehydratase IlvA 991 972 coexpression:676 database:900 textmining:707
Rv0118c oxcA oxalyl-CoA decarboxylase OxcA 958 943 ctx cooccurence:464 coexpression:650 experimental:704
Rv3710 leuA 2-isopropylmalate synthase 981 938 coexpression:595 database:800 textmining:709
Rv2455c korA 2-oxoglutarate oxidoreductase subunit KorA 929 921 database:900
Rv2454c korB 2-oxoglutarate oxidoreductase subunit KorB 905 906 database:900
Rv0189c ilvD dihydroxy-acid dehydratase 960 892 ctx cooccurence:583 coexpression:650 textmining:655
Rv2496c bkdB 3-methyl-2-oxobutanoate dehydrogenase subunit beta 878 872 database:800
Rv2987c leuD 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase small subunit 895 829 coexpression:761 textmining:416
Rv2988c leuC 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase large subunit 867 828 coexpression:777

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: acetolactate synthase small subunit
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: acetolactate synthase small subunit
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): ACT PF01842.32 (E=1e-17), ACT_AHAS_ss PF22629.3 (E=2e-27), ACT_5 PF13710.13 (E=2e-14), ALS_ss_C PF10369.16 (E=7e-28)
  • (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_217518.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — ACT (PF01842.32), ACT_AHAS_ss (PF22629.3), ACT_5 (PF13710.13), ALS_ss_C (PF10369.16)
  • 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 COG0440
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WKJ3 (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 — 44 functional partner(s); context anchor ilvB1
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003191|Rv3002c|ilvN
MSPKTHTLSVLVEDKPGVLARVAALFSRRGFNIESLAVGATECKDRSRMTIVVSAEDTPLEQITKQLNKLINVIKIVEQDDEHSVSRELALIKVQADAGSRSQVIEAVNLFRANVIDVSPESLTVEATGNRGKLEALLRVLEPFGIREIAQSGMVSLSRGPRGIGTAK