wbbL1 Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3265c · MTBC0 - · 301 aa · 3645979–3646884 (-) · RefSeq YP_177952.3

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)N-acetylglucosaminyl-diphospho-decaprenol L-rhamnosyltransferase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)N-acetylglucosaminyl-diphospho-decaprenol L-rhamnosyltransferase. Pfam: Glycos_transf_2 (PF00535.33), Glyco_tranf_2_3 (PF13641.13), Glyco_trans_2_3 (PF13632.13).

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 P9WMY3 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameN-acetylglucosaminyl-diphospho-decaprenol L-rhamnosyltransferase
EC (curated) EC 2.4.1.289
Curated functionInvolved in the biosynthesis of the mycolylarabinogalactan-peptidoglycan (mAGP) complex, an essential component of the mycobacterial cell wall. Catalyzes the transfer of the rhamnosyl moiety from dTDP-rhamnosyl (dTDP-Rha) onto the decaprenyl-pyrophosphoryl-GlcNAc (C50-PP-GlcNAc), yielding rhamnosyl-decaprenyl-pyrophosphoryl-GlcNAc (Rha-C50-PP-GlcNAc).

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category S Function unknown
Preferred namewbbL
eggNOG descriptionPFAM Glycosyl transferase family 2
Orthologous groupCOG1216
EC number EC 2.4.1.289
KEGG orthology K16870
Gene Ontology (35) GO:0000271, GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0005575, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0005975, GO:0005976, GO:0008150, GO:0008152, GO:0009058, GO:0009059 +23 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 0.0 · strong purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 1 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
Glycos_transf_2PF00535.33 2.6e-115–190 Glycosyl transferase family 2
Glyco_tranf_2_3PF13641.13 1.0e-086–234 Glycosyltransferase like family 2
Glyco_trans_2_3PF13632.13 2.5e-06172–239 Glycosyl transferase family group 2

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

Closest characterised functional partner: rmlD (dTDP-4-dehydrorhamnose reductase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 984 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3266c rmlD dTDP-4-dehydrorhamnose reductase 996 984 ctx neighborhood:880 cooccurence:715 database:500 textmining:775
Rv3782 glfT1 galactofuranosyl transferase GlfT 962 920 database:900 textmining:550
Rv1302 rfe decaprenyl-phosphate N-acetylglucosaminephosphotransferase 989 918 database:900 textmining:877
Rv3264c manB D-alpha-D-mannose-1-phosphate guanylyltransferase ManB 895 891 ctx neighborhood:881
Rv3267 lcp1 hyp hypothetical protein 919 831 ctx neighborhood:783 textmining:545
Rv3465 rmlC dTDP-4-dehydrorhamnose 3,5-epimerase 930 806 ctx cooccurence:712 textmining:659
Rv3754 tyrA prephenate dehydrogenase TyrA 770 770 coexpression:770
Rv2584c apt adenine phosphoribosyltransferase 769 770 coexpression:766
Rv3783 rfbD O-antigen/lipopolysaccharide ABC transporter permease RfbD 900 710 ctx cooccurence:483 textmining:672
Rv0334 rmlA glucose-1-phosphate thymidylyltransferase 893 665 ctx cooccurence:525 textmining:696
Rv3781 rfbE O-antigen/lipopolysaccharide ABC transporter ATP-binding protein RfbE 880 643 ctx cooccurence:402 textmining:678
Rv3311 hyp hypothetical protein 586 587 ctx cooccurence:584
Rv3268 hyp hypothetical protein 548 548 ctx neighborhood:534
Rv3464 rmlB dTDP-glucose 4,6-dehydratase 903 492 textmining:818
Rv3242c hyp hypothetical protein 461 462 coexpression:460

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): N-acetylglucosaminyl-diphospho-decaprenol L-rhamnosyltransferase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Glycos_transf_2 PF00535.33 (E=3e-11), Glyco_tranf_2_3 PF13641.13 (E=1e-08), Glyco_trans_2_3 PF13632.13 (E=3e-06)
  • (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_177952.3)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Glycos_transf_2 (PF00535.33), Glyco_tranf_2_3 (PF13641.13), Glyco_trans_2_3 (PF13632.13)
  • 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 COG1216
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WMY3 (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 — 34 functional partner(s); context anchor rmlD
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv3265c|wbbL1
MVAVTYSPGPHLERFLASLSLATERPVSVLLADNGSTDGTPQAAVQRYPNVRLLPTGANLGYGTAVNRTIAQLGEMAGDAGEPWVDDWVIVANPDVQWGPGSIDALLDAASRWPRAGALGPLIRDPDGSVYPSARQMPSLIRGGMHAVLGPFWPRNPWTTAYRQERLEPSERPVGWLSGSCLLVRRSAFGQVGGFDERYFMYMEDVDLGDRLGKAGWLSVYVPSAEVLHHKAHSTGRDPASHLAAHHKSTYIFLADRHSGWWRAPLRWTLRGSLALRSHLMVRSSLRRSRRRKLKLVEGRH