pknK Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3080c · MTBC0 mtbc0_003274 · 1110 aa · 3464020–3467352 (-) · RefSeq NP_217596.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)serine/threonine-protein kinase PknK
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationserine/threonine protein kinase PknK
Revised (this work)Serine/threonine protein kinase PknK. Pfam: Pkinase (PF00069.32), PK_Tyr_Ser-Thr (PF07714.24), NPHP3_N (PF24883.3), AAA_16 (PF13191.13), WHD_MalT (PF25873.1).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WI65 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameSerine/threonine-protein kinase PknK
EC (curated) EC 2.7.11.1
Curated functionKey microbial factor involved in regulation of early and late events in tuberculosis infection, and in host-pathogen interactions. Modulates host immunity during early infection. Slows mycobacterial growth during chronic infection in host and during a variety of stress conditions in vitro. Regulates the expression of a large subset of tRNA genes as a means to facilitate adaptation to changing growth environments. In vitro, directs the inhibition of transcription and translation processes in a phosphorylation-dependent manner. Phosphorylates the transcriptional regulator VirS, thereby increasin.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category K Transcription
L Replication, recombination and repair
T Signal transduction mechanisms
Preferred namepknK
eggNOG descriptionPFAM Protein kinase
Orthologous groupCOG0515
EC number EC 2.7.11.1
KEGG orthology K12132, K13419
Gene Ontology (65) GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0004672, GO:0004674, GO:0005488, GO:0005515, GO:0005575, GO:0005618, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0005829 +53 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 0.634 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 7 synonymous, 12 missense, 0 nonsense, 3 frameshift
Disruption 3 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.46% of strains (672) · 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
PkinasePF00069.32 3.1e-4127–272 Protein kinase domain
PK_Tyr_Ser-ThrPF07714.24 2.3e-3129–273 Protein tyrosine and serine/threonine kinase
NPHP3_NPF24883.3 1.2e-06347–492 Nephrocystin 3, N-terminal
AAA_16PF13191.13 3.1e-10349–484 AAA ATPase domain
WHD_MalTPF25873.1 1.3e-25588–668 MalT winged helix domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: pstP (phosphoserine/threonine phosphatase PstP), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 757 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3079c hyp hypothetical protein 902 902 ctx neighborhood:647 coexpression:735
Rv0018c pstP phosphoserine/threonine phosphatase PstP 794 757 ctx cooccurence:633
Rv3081 hyp hypothetical protein 683 683 ctx neighborhood:610
Rv3091 hyp hypothetical protein 477 477 ctx cooccurence:457
Rv2305 hyp hypothetical protein 453 454 ctx cooccurence:440
Rv1827 garA glycogen accumulation regulator GarA 727 443 textmining:531
Rv2031c hspX alpha-crystallin 460 435 experimental:415
Rv1541c lprI lipoprotein LprI 434 435 ctx cooccurence:408
Rv0251c hsp heat shock protein 459 433 experimental:415
Rv2490c PE_PGRS43 PE-PGRS family protein PE_PGRS43 430 431
Rv0014c pknB serine/threonine-protein kinase PknB 621 429
Rv0019c fhaB FHA domain-containing protein FhaB 449 426
Rv1747 ABC transporter ATP-binding protein/permease 562 420
Rv1920 membrane protein 416 417
Rv2487c PE_PGRS42 PE-PGRS family protein PE_PGRS42 402 403

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: serine/threonine-protein kinase PknK
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: serine/threonine protein kinase PknK
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Pkinase PF00069.32 (E=3e-41), PK_Tyr_Ser-Thr PF07714.24 (E=2e-31), NPHP3_N PF24883.3 (E=1e-06), AAA_16 PF13191.13 (E=3e-10), WHD_MalT PF25873.1 (E=1e-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_217596.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Pkinase (PF00069.32), PK_Tyr_Ser-Thr (PF07714.24), NPHP3_N (PF24883.3), AAA_16 (PF13191.13), WHD_MalT (PF25873.1)
  • 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 COG0515
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WI65 (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 — 36 functional partner(s); context anchor pstP
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003274|Rv3080c|pknK
MTDVDPHATRRDLVPNIPAELLEAGFDNVEEIGRGGFGVVYRCVQPSLDRAVAVKVLSTDLDRDNLERFLREQRAMGRLSGHPHIVTVLQVGVLAGGRPFIVMPYHAKNSLETLIRRHGPLDWRETLSIGVKLAGALEAAHRVGTLHRDVKPGNILLTDYGEPQLTDFGIARIAGGFETATGVIAGSPAFTAPEVLEGASPTPASDVYSLGATLFCALTGHAAYERRSGERVIAQFLRITSQPIPDLRKQGLPADVAAAIERAMARHPADRPATAADVGEELRDVQRRNGVSVDEMPLPVELGVERRRSPEAHAAHRHTGGGTPTVPTPPTPATKYRPSVPTGSLVTRSRLTDILRAGGRRRLILIHAPSGFGKSTLAAQWREELSRDGAAVAWLTIDNDDNNEVWFLSHLLESIRRVRPTLAESLGHVLEEHGDDAGRYVLTSLIDEIHENDDRIAVVIDDWHRVSDSRTQAALGFLLDNGCHHLQLIVTSWSRAGLPVGRLRIGDELAEIDSAALRFDTDEAAALLNDAGGLRLPRADVQALTTSTDGWAAALRLAALSLRGGGDATQLLRGLSGASDVIHEFLSENVLDTLEPELREFLLVASVTERTCGGLASALAGITNGRAMLEEAEHRGLFLQRTEDDPNWFRFHQMFADFLHRRLERGGSHRVAELHRRASAWFAENGYLHEAVDHALAAGDPARAVDLVEQDETNLPEQSKMTTLLAIVQKLPTSMVVSRARLQLAIAWANILLQRPAPATGALNRFETALGRAELPEATQADLRAEADVLRAVAEVFADRVERVDDLLAEAMSRPDTLPPRVPGTAGNTAALAAICRFEFAEVYPLLDWAAPYQEMMGPFGTVYAQCLRGMAARNRLDIVAALQNFRTAFEVGTAVGAHSHAARLAGSLLAELLYETGDLAGAGRLMDESYLLGSEGGAVDYLAARYVIGARVKAAQGDHEGAADRLSTGGDTAVQLGLPRLAARINNERIRLGIALPAAVAADLLAPRTIPRDNGIATMTAELDEDSAVRLLSAGDSADRDQACQRAGALAAAIDGTRRPLAALQAQILHIETLAATGRESDARNELAPVATKCAELGLSRLLVDAGLA