ppk2 Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3232c · MTBC0 - · 295 aa · 3608870–3609757 (-) · RefSeq NP_217749.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)polyphosphate kinase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Polyphosphate kinase. Pfam: PPK2 (PF03976.21).

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 O05877 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameGDP-polyphosphate phosphotransferase
EC (curated) EC 2.7.4.-
Curated functionUses inorganic polyphosphate (polyP) as a donor to convert GDP to GTP. In addition, modulates nucleotide triphosphate synthesis catalyzed by the nucleoside diphosphate kinase (Ndk) in favor of GTP production over CTP or UTP. Plays an important role in survival of M.tuberculosis in macrophages.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category S Function unknown
Preferred nameppk2
eggNOG descriptionpolyphosphate kinase
Orthologous groupCOG2326
EC number EC 2.7.4.1
KEGG orthology K22468
KEGG pathways map00190, map03018
Gene Ontology (135) GO:0000166, GO:0001882, GO:0001883, GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0005488, GO:0005525, GO:0005575, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0006139, GO:0006140 +123 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 0.251 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 5 synonymous, 4 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
PPK2PF03976.21 5.4e-11233–259 Polyphosphate kinase 2 (PPK2)

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

Closest characterised functional partner: ppk1 (polyphosphate kinase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 954 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2984 ppk1 polyphosphate kinase 994 954 ctx cooccurence:512 database:900 textmining:895
Rv3628 ppa inorganic pyrophosphatase 934 904 database:900
Rv3231c hyp hypothetical protein 975 882 ctx neighborhood:881 textmining:803
Rv3234c tgs3 diacyglycerol O-acyltransferase 860 765 ctx neighborhood:721 textmining:431
Rv3233c Rv3233c, (MTCY20B11.08c), len: 196 aa. Possible triacylglycerol synthase (See Daniel et al., 2004), similar to C-terminus of Q9RIU8|SCM11.13 856 735 ctx neighborhood:721 textmining:480
Rv0213c methyltransferase 691 692 coexpression:692
Rv3230c stearoyl-CoA 9-desaturase electron transfer protein 784 542 ctx neighborhood:542 textmining:547
Rv2388c hemN oxygen-independent coproporphyrinogen III oxidase 501 502 coexpression:473
Rv3235 hyp hypothetical protein 501 501 ctx neighborhood:498
Rv1276c hyp hypothetical protein 489 490
Rv0408 pta phosphate acetyltransferase 464 464 coexpression:449
Rv3229c desA3 stearoyl-CoA 9-desaturase 455 451 ctx neighborhood:448
Rv0496 ppx1 hyp hypothetical protein 929 414 textmining:885
Rv0545c pitA low-affinity inorganic phosphate transporter 412 352
Rv2281 pitB phosphate permease 410 350

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): polyphosphate kinase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): PPK2 PF03976.21 (E=5e-112)
  • (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_217749.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — PPK2 (PF03976.21)
  • 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 COG2326
  • Curated reference: UniProt O05877 (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 — 22 functional partner(s); context anchor ppk1
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv3232c|ppk2
MDIPSVDVSTATNDGASSRAKGHRSAAPGRRKISDAVYQAELFRLQTEFVKLQEWARHSGARLVVIFEGRDGAGKGGAIKRITEYLNPRVARIAALPAPTDRERGQWYYQRYIAHLPAKGEIVLFDRSWYNRAGVEKVMGFCTPQEYVLFLRQTPIFEQMLIDDGILLRKYWFSVSDAEQLRRFKARRNDPVRQWKLSPMDLESVYRWEDYSRAKDEMMVHTDTPVSPWYVVESDIKKHARLNMMAHLLSTIDYADVEKPKVKLPPRPLVSGNYRRPPRELSTYVDDYVATLIAR