moeB2 Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3116 · MTBC0 - · 389 aa · 3482776–3483945 (+) · RefSeq YP_177929.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis protein MoeB
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis protein MoeB. Pfam: ThiF (PF00899.28), Rhodanese (PF00581.26).

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 L7N674 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameProbable adenylyltransferase/sulfurtransferase MoeZ

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category H Coenzyme transport and metabolism
P Inorganic ion transport and metabolism
Preferred namemoeB
eggNOG descriptionThe proteins in this cluster have high sequence similarity to MoeB and are possibly involved in the synthesis of molybdopterin, but there has been no biochemical or physiological characterization. There is also no genetic linkage to other molybdopterin cofactor synthesis proteins. These proteins are
Orthologous groupCOG0476
EC number EC 2.7.7.80, EC 2.8.1.11
KEGG orthology K21147
KEGG pathways map04122
Gene Ontology (47) GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0005575, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0005829, GO:0006732, GO:0006777, GO:0006793, GO:0006796, GO:0006807 +35 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 0.83 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 2 synonymous, 4 missense, 1 nonsense, 2 frameshift
Disruption 3 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.30% of strains (435) · 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
ThiFPF00899.28 3.3e-8522–255 ThiF family
RhodanesePF00581.26 6.7e-21290–380 Rhodanese-like domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: cysO (sulfur carrier protein CysO), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 973 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3323c moaX MoaD-MoaE fusion protein MoaX 997 990 coexpression:447 experimental:473 database:934 textmining:735
Rv3025c iscS cysteine desulfurase 981 975 database:960
Rv1335 cysO sulfur carrier protein CysO 991 973 ctx cooccurence:531 experimental:415 database:900 textmining:697
Rv3112 moaD1 molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis protein MoaD 986 957 experimental:415 database:900 textmining:693
Rv0868c moaD2 cyclic pyranopterin monophosphate synthase 994 954 experimental:415 database:900 textmining:885
Rv3119 moaE1 molybdopterin synthase catalytic subunit 1 987 952 ctx neighborhood:657 coexpression:460 database:668 textmining:754
Rv0866 moaE2 molybdopterin synthase catalytic subunit 2 984 930 coexpression:432 database:668 textmining:790
Rv3206c moeB1 adenylyltransferase/sulfurtransferase MoeZ 921 910 database:900
Rv0417 thiG thiazole synthase 879 835 coexpression:729
Rv0416 thiS sulfur carrier protein ThiS 773 748 coexpression:488 experimental:463
Rv3117 cysA3 thiosulfate sulfurtransferase 767 736 ctx neighborhood:701
Rv3118 sseC1 hyp hypothetical protein 682 681 ctx neighborhood:679
Rv3120 hyp hypothetical protein 671 659 ctx neighborhood:636
Rv0434 hyp hypothetical protein 657 644 database:595
Rv3846 sodA superoxide dismutase 679 642 experimental:573

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): molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis protein MoeB
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): ThiF PF00899.28 (E=3e-85), Rhodanese PF00581.26 (E=7e-21)
  • (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 YP_177929.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — ThiF (PF00899.28), Rhodanese (PF00581.26)
  • 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 COG0476
  • Curated reference: UniProt L7N674 (TrEMBL, unreviewed; 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 — 128 functional partner(s); context anchor cysO
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv3116|moeB2
MTEALIPAPSQISLTRDEVRRYSRHLIIPDIGVNGQQRLKDARVLCIGAGGLGSPALLYLAAAGVGTIGIIDGDHVDESNLQRQIIHGTSDVGRPKVESAAEAVAEINPHVRVTQYREMLTHDNALEIFGDHDLIVDGTDNFTTRYLINDAAVLAGKPYVWGSIYRFNGQTSVFWPGRGPCYRCLHPAPPPPGLVPSCAEGGVLGAICATIASIQVTEVLKLLTGVGTPLVGRLLMYEALDATYHQIRIAKNPDCAICGDAPTITELVDDSVSCASTQSVDPELVISCDELRTKQQSDQNFLLVDVREPAEFDIAHIPGSILIPKGEIGSAAGLAQLPLDKEIVLYCKSGIRSAQALTTLKAAGLHNVKHLDGGIAEWTRTIDSSLLVY