prfB Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3105c · MTBC0 - · 378 aa · 3472768–3473904 (-) · RefSeq NP_217621.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)peptide chain release factor PrfB
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Peptide chain release factor PrfB. Pfam: PCRF (PF03462.24), RF-1 (PF00472.27).

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

Annotated on the H37Rv protein: this gene has no 1:1 ancestral MTBC0 anchor (PE/PPE, paralogue, IS element, or otherwise unanchored CDS).

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WHG1 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt namePeptide chain release factor 2
Curated functionPeptide chain release factor 2 directs the termination of translation in response to the peptide chain termination codons UGA and UAA.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category J Translation, ribosomal structure and biogenesis
Preferred nameprfB
eggNOG descriptionPeptide chain release factor 2 directs the termination of translation in response to the peptide chain termination codons UGA and UAA
Orthologous groupCOG0216
KEGG orthology K02836
Gene Ontology (8) GO:0005575, GO:0005618, GO:0005623, GO:0008150, GO:0030312, GO:0040007, GO:0044464, GO:0071944

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 0.541 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 3 synonymous, 5 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
PCRFPF03462.24 2.5e-5636–228 PCRF domain
RF-1PF00472.27 1.5e-37238–345 RF-1 domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: rplL (50S ribosomal protein L7/L12), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 978 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2442c rplU 50S ribosomal protein L21 986 987 coexpression:817 experimental:915
Rv2441c rpmA 50S ribosomal protein L27 984 982 coexpression:655 experimental:925
Rv0652 rplL 50S ribosomal protein L7/L12 982 978 ctx cooccurence:609 experimental:914
Rv0708 rplP 50S ribosomal protein L16 978 978 ctx cooccurence:477 experimental:912
Rv3443c rplM 50S ribosomal protein L13 977 977 ctx cooccurence:509 coexpression:498 experimental:914
Rv2909c rpsP 30S ribosomal protein S16 977 976 coexpression:670 experimental:915
Rv1643 rplT 50S ribosomal protein L20 977 974 ctx cooccurence:507 coexpression:422 experimental:915
Rv0702 rplD 50S ribosomal protein L4 976 974 ctx cooccurence:460 coexpression:475 experimental:914
Rv3456c rplQ 50S ribosomal protein L17 972 973 ctx cooccurence:457 coexpression:458 experimental:915
Rv0682 rpsL 30S ribosomal protein S12 973 970 coexpression:599 experimental:910
Rv0683 rpsG 30S ribosomal protein S7 972 965 coexpression:500 experimental:910
Rv2904c rplS 50S ribosomal protein L19 966 963 coexpression:417 experimental:923
Rv0056 rplI 50S ribosomal protein L9 965 960 experimental:917
Rv0715 rplX 50S ribosomal protein L24 960 960 coexpression:448 experimental:913
Rv0723 rplO 50S ribosomal protein L15 958 956 experimental:919

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

  • Annotation from H37Rv (no MTBC0 1:1 anchor; H37Rv protein used): peptide chain release factor PrfB
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): PCRF PF03462.24 (E=2e-56), RF-1 PF00472.27 (E=1e-37)
  • (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_217621.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — PCRF (PF03462.24), RF-1 (PF00472.27)
  • 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 COG0216
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WHG1 (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 — 188 functional partner(s); context anchor rplL
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv3105c|prfB
MPVTLAAVDPDRQADIAALDCTLTTVERVLDVEGLRSRIEKLEHEASDPHLWDDQTRAQRVTSELSHTQGELRRVEELRRRLDDLPVLYELAAEEAGAAAADAVAEADAELKSLRADIEATEVRTLLSGEYDEREALVTIRSGAGGVDAADWAEMLMRMYIRWAEQHKYPVEVFDTSYAEEAGIKSATFAVHAPFAYGTLSVEQGTHRLVRISPFDNQSRRQTSFAEVEVLPVVETTDHIDIPEGDVRVDVYRSSGPGGQSVNTTDSAVRLTHIPSGIVVTCQNEKSQLQNKIAAMRVLQAKLLERKRLEERAELDALKADGGSSWGNQMRSYVLHPYQMVKDLRTEYEVGNPAAVLDGDLDGFLEAGIRWRNRRNDD