whiB2 Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3260c · MTBC0 - · 89 aa · 3639872–3640141 (-) · RefSeq NP_217777.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)transcriptional regulator WhiB2
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Transcriptional regulator WhiB2. Pfam: Whib (PF02467.22).

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 O53353 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameTranscriptional regulator WhiB2
Curated functionActs as a transcriptional regulator. Probably redox-responsive. The apo- but not holo-form probably binds DNA (By similarity)..; FUNCTION: The apo-form functions as a chaperone, preventing aggregation or helping in correct refolding of a number of substrates; this activity does not require ATP or the ability to bind a Fe-S cluster. Chaperone activity is insensitive to the redox state of its cysteine residues. The apo-form has no protein disulfide reductase activity. The apo-form binds to its own promoter.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category K Transcription
Preferred namewhiB2
eggNOG descriptionActs as a transcriptional regulator. Probably redox- responsive. The apo- but not holo-form probably binds DNA
Orthologous group2CC1Y
KEGG orthology K18955

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.

Domains (Pfam, hmmscan --cut_ga)

PfamAccessioni-EvalueResiduesDescription
WhibPF02467.22 2.0e-2721–84 Transcription factor WhiB

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

Closest characterised functional partner: Rv1830 (HTH-type transcriptional regulator), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 779 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1830 HTH-type transcriptional regulator 843 779 ctx cooccurence:770
Rv2901c hyp hypothetical protein 769 770 ctx cooccurence:767
Rv1440 secG protein-export membrane protein SecG 767 767 ctx cooccurence:766
Rv1390 rpoZ DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit omega 753 754 ctx cooccurence:749
Rv1321 nucS endonuclease NucS 722 723 ctx cooccurence:720
Rv1331 clpS ATP-dependent Clp protease adapter protein ClpS 658 658 ctx cooccurence:656
Rv3258c hyp hypothetical protein 657 658 coexpression:449
Rv3195 hyp hypothetical protein 642 642 ctx cooccurence:642
Rv2092c helY ATP-dependent DNA helicase HelY 624 624 ctx cooccurence:624
Rv1025 hyp hypothetical protein 622 622 ctx cooccurence:620
Rv0525 hyp hypothetical protein 617 617 ctx cooccurence:616
Rv2699c hyp hypothetical protein 609 610 ctx cooccurence:606
Rv2467 pepN aminopeptidase PepN 593 594 ctx cooccurence:591
Rv2745c clgR transcriptional regulator ClgR 568 568 ctx cooccurence:562
Rv3220c pdtaS two component sensor kinase 595 566 ctx cooccurence:561

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): transcriptional regulator WhiB2
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Whib PF02467.22 (E=2e-27)
  • (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_217777.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Whib (PF02467.22)
  • 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 2CC1Y
  • Curated reference: UniProt O53353 (SwissProt, reviewed; Evidence at protein level)
  • Interaction network: STRING v12.0 (Szklarczyk et al. 2023, doi:10.1093/nar/gkac1000), taxon 83332, CC-BY 4.0 — 45 functional partner(s); context anchor Rv1830
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv3260c|whiB2
MVPEAPAPFEEPLPPEATDQWQDRALCAQTDPEAFFPEKGGSTREAKKICMGCEVRHECLEYALAHDERFGIWGGLSERERRRLKRGII