PPE50 Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3135 · MTBC0 - · 132 aa · 3501334–3501732 (+) · RefSeq YP_177934.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)PPE family protein PPE50
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)PPE family protein PPE50. Pfam: PPE (PF00823.26).

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 Q6MX07 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameUncharacterized PPE family protein PPE50

UniProt still lists this protein as Uncharacterized PPE family protein PPE50; the revised annotation above is ahead of the current UniProt record.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category N Cell motility
eggNOG descriptionPPE family
Orthologous groupCOG5651
Gene Ontology (2) GO:0008150, GO:0040007

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 0.0 · strong purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 4 synonymous, 0 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
PPEPF00823.26 4.7e-422–121 PPE family

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

Closest characterised functional partner: PPE51 (PPE family protein PPE51), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 940 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3136 PPE51 PPE family protein PPE51 941 940 ctx neighborhood:591 coexpression:860
Rv3137 hisN histidinol-phosphatase 733 733 coexpression:733
Rv3442c rpsI 30S ribosomal protein S9 522 63 textmining:511
Rv3696c glpK glycerol kinase 451 63 textmining:439
Rv0053 rpsF 30S ribosomal protein S6 520 59 textmining:511
Rv3834c serS serine--tRNA ligase 436 45 textmining:434
Rv1519 hyp hypothetical protein 413 44 textmining:412

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): PPE family protein PPE50
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): PPE PF00823.26 (E=5e-42)
  • (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_177934.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — PPE (PF00823.26)
  • 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 COG5651
  • Curated reference: UniProt Q6MX07 (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 — 7 functional partner(s); context anchor PPE51
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv3135|PPE50
MDYAFLPPEINSARMYSGPGPNSMLVAAASWDALAAELASAAENYGSVIARLTGMHWWGPASTSMLAMSAPYVEWLERTAAQTKQTATQARAAAAAFEQAHAMTVPPALVTGIRGAIVVETASASNTAGTPP