mtrB Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3245c · MTBC0 mtbc0_003453 · 567 aa · 3647053–3648756 (-) · RefSeq NP_217762.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)two component sensory histidine kinase MtrB
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationtwo-component system sensor histidine kinase MtrB
Revised (this work)Two-component system sensor histidine kinase MtrB. Pfam: HAMP (PF00672.31), HisKA (PF00512.32), HATPase_c_2 (PF13581.13), HATPase_c (PF02518.32).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WGK9 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameSensor histidine kinase MtrB
EC (curated) EC 2.7.13.3
Curated functionMember of the two-component regulatory system MtrA/MtrB. Probably functions as a membrane-associated protein kinase that phosphorylates MtrA in response to environmental signals. Autophosphorylates and transfers phosphate to MtrA in vitro. Overexpression of MtrA alone decreases bacterial virulence in mouse infection; co-expression of MtrA and MtrB restores normal bacterial growth, suggesting that bacterial growth in macrophages requires an optimal ratio of MtrB to MtrA. Probably plays a role in cell division.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category T Signal transduction mechanisms
Preferred namemtrB
eggNOG descriptionHistidine kinase
Orthologous groupCOG5000
EC number EC 2.7.13.3
KEGG orthology K07636, K07654
KEGG pathways map02020
KEGG modules M00434, M00461
Gene Ontology (10) GO:0005575, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0005829, GO:0008150, GO:0040007, GO:0044424, GO:0044444, GO:0044464

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 0.247 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 3 synonymous, 2 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
HAMPPF00672.31 5.8e-12232–283 HAMP domain
HisKAPF00512.32 9.3e-17296–362 His Kinase A (phospho-acceptor) domain
HATPase_c_2PF13581.13 2.6e-06401–485 Histidine kinase-like ATPase domain
HATPase_cPF02518.32 8.8e-24409–518 Histidine kinase-, DNA gyrase B-, and HSP90-like ATPase

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

Closest characterised functional partner: mtrA (two component DNA-binding response regulator MtrA), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 995 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3246c mtrA two component DNA-binding response regulator MtrA 999 995 ctx neighborhood:693 cooccurence:724 database:900 textmining:965
Rv3244c lpqB lipoprotein LpqB 979 949 ctx neighborhood:816 coexpression:651 textmining:621
Rv0491 regX3 two component sensory transduction protein RegX 845 789 ctx cooccurence:627
Rv0903c prrA two component transcriptional regulator PrrA 863 783 ctx cooccurence:617
Rv0981 mprA two-component response regulator MrpA 829 767 ctx cooccurence:580
Rv1033c trcR two component transcriptional regulator TrcR 800 746 ctx cooccurence:558
Rv3765c tcrX two component transcriptional regulator TcrX 795 741 ctx cooccurence:549
Rv0757 phoP two component system response transcriptional positive regulator PhoP 809 733 ctx cooccurence:531
Rv3242c hyp hypothetical protein 711 712 ctx neighborhood:595
Rv0602c tcrA two component DNA binding transcriptional regulator TcrA 779 711 ctx cooccurence:496
Rv1027c kdpE transcriptional regulator KdpE 767 662 ctx cooccurence:411
Rv0818 transcriptional regulator 653 607
Rv3243c hyp hypothetical protein 597 598 ctx neighborhood:591
Rv2884 transcriptional regulator 644 597
Rv3247c tmk thymidylate kinase 574 574 ctx neighborhood: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

  • Legacy H37Rv annotation: two component sensory histidine kinase MtrB
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: two-component system sensor histidine kinase MtrB
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): HAMP PF00672.31 (E=6e-12), HisKA PF00512.32 (E=9e-17), HATPase_c_2 PF13581.13 (E=3e-06), HATPase_c PF02518.32 (E=9e-24)
  • (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_217762.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — HAMP (PF00672.31), HisKA (PF00512.32), HATPase_c_2 (PF13581.13), HATPase_c (PF02518.32)
  • 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 COG5000
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WGK9 (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 — 30 functional partner(s); context anchor mtrA
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003453|Rv3245c|mtrB
MIFGSRRRIRGRRGRSGPMTRGLSALSRAVAVAWRRSLQLRVVALTLGLSLAVILALGFVLTSQVTNRVLDIKVRAAIDQIERARTTVSGIVNGEETRSLDSSLQLARNTLTSKTDPASGAGLAGAFDAVLMVPGDGPRAASTAGPVDQVPNALRGFVKAGQAAYQYATVQTEGFSGPALIIGTPTLSRVANLELYLIFPLASEQATITLVRGTMATGGLVLLVLLAGIALLVSRQVVVPVRSASRIAERFAEGHLSERMPVRGEDDMARLAVSFNDMAESLSRQIAQLEEFGNLQRRFTSDVSHELRTPLTTVRMAADLIYDHSADLDPTLRRSTELMVSELDRFETLLNDLLEISRHDAGVAELSVEAVDLRTTVNNALGNVGHLAEEAGIELLVDLPAEQVIAEVDARRVERILRNLIANAIDHAEHKPVRIRMAADEDTVAVTVRDYGVGLRPGEEKLVFSRFWRSDPSRVRRSGGTGLGLAISVEDARLHQGRLEAWGEPGEGACFRLTLPLVRGHKVTTSPLPMKPIPQPVLQPVAQPNPQPMPPEYKERQRPREHAEWSG