rmlD Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3266c · MTBC0 mtbc0_003474 · 304 aa · 3669038–3669952 (-) · RefSeq NP_217783.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)dTDP-4-dehydrorhamnose reductase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationdTDP-4-dehydrorhamnose reductase
Revised (this work)DTDP-4-dehydrorhamnose reductase. Pfam: RmlD_sub_bind (PF04321.24), Epimerase (PF01370.28), GDP_Man_Dehyd (PF16363.12), 3Beta_HSD (PF01073.26), Polysacc_synt_2 (PF02719.22), NAD_binding_4 (PF07993.19).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WH09 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt namedTDP-4-dehydrorhamnose reductase
EC (curated) EC 1.1.1.133
Curated functionInvolved in the biosynthesis of the dTDP-L-rhamnose which is a component of the critical linker, D-N-acetylglucosamine-L-rhamnose disaccharide, which connects the galactan region of arabinogalactan to peptidoglycan via a phosphodiester linkage. Catalyzes the reduction of dTDP-6-deoxy-L-lyxo-4-hexulose to yield dTDP-L-rhamnose (By similarity).

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category M Cell wall / membrane / envelope biogenesis
Preferred namermlD
eggNOG descriptionCatalyzes the reduction of dTDP-6-deoxy-L-lyxo-4- hexulose to yield dTDP-L-rhamnose
Orthologous groupCOG1091
EC number EC 1.1.1.133
KEGG orthology K00067
KEGG pathways map00521, map00523, map01130
KEGG modules M00793
Gene Ontology (49) GO:0000271, GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0005975, GO:0005976, GO:0006139, GO:0006725, GO:0006807, GO:0008150, GO:0008152, GO:0008831, GO:0009058 +37 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 0.368 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 3 synonymous, 3 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
RmlD_sub_bindPF04321.24 1.0e-1077–287 RmlD substrate binding domain
EpimerasePF01370.28 6.4e-269–212 NAD dependent epimerase/dehydratase family
GDP_Man_DehydPF16363.12 3.5e-0938–144 GDP-mannose 4,6 dehydratase
3Beta_HSDPF01073.26 3.6e-1138–201 3-beta hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase/isomerase family
Polysacc_synt_2PF02719.22 6.5e-0541–105 Polysaccharide biosynthesis protein
NAD_binding_4PF07993.19 2.0e-0945–158 Male sterility protein

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

Closest characterised functional partner: rmlC (dTDP-4-dehydrorhamnose 3,5-epimerase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 999 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3465 rmlC dTDP-4-dehydrorhamnose 3,5-epimerase 999 999 ctx fusion:837 cooccurence:773 coexpression:857 database:900 textmining:949
Rv3265c wbbL1 N-acetylglucosaminyl-diphospho-decaprenol L-rhamnosyltransferase 996 984 ctx neighborhood:880 cooccurence:715 database:500 textmining:775
Rv0334 rmlA glucose-1-phosphate thymidylyltransferase 998 969 ctx cooccurence:763 coexpression:853 textmining:963
Rv3784 dTDP-glucose 4,6-dehydratase 975 966 coexpression:714 database:800
Rv3464 rmlB dTDP-glucose 4,6-dehydratase 989 962 coexpression:715 database:800 textmining:745
Rv0536 galE3 UDP-glucose 4-epimerase GalE 944 941 database:900
Rv3264c manB D-alpha-D-mannose-1-phosphate guanylyltransferase ManB 958 935 ctx neighborhood:879 coexpression:481
Rv3267 lcp1 hyp hypothetical protein 931 787 ctx neighborhood:784 textmining:693
Rv0524 hemL glutamate-1-semialdehyde 2,1-aminomutase 745 746 coexpression:733
Rv0321 dcd deoxycytidine triphosphate deaminase 645 645 coexpression:645
Rv0501 galE2 UDP-glucose 4-epimerase GalE 658 639
Rv3268 hyp hypothetical protein 578 578 ctx neighborhood:565
Rv0112 gca GDP-mannose 4,6-dehydratase 558 533
Rv0139 oxidoreductase 551 526
Rv3634c galE1 UDP-glucose 4-epimerase 531 505

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: dTDP-4-dehydrorhamnose reductase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: dTDP-4-dehydrorhamnose reductase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): RmlD_sub_bind PF04321.24 (E=1e-107), Epimerase PF01370.28 (E=6e-26), GDP_Man_Dehyd PF16363.12 (E=3e-09), 3Beta_HSD PF01073.26 (E=4e-11), Polysacc_synt_2 PF02719.22 (E=6e-05), NAD_binding_4 PF07993.19 (E=2e-09)
  • (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_217783.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — RmlD_sub_bind (PF04321.24), Epimerase (PF01370.28), GDP_Man_Dehyd (PF16363.12), 3Beta_HSD (PF01073.26), Polysacc_synt_2 (PF02719.22), NAD_binding_4 (PF07993.19)
  • 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 COG1091
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WH09 (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 — 40 functional partner(s); context anchor rmlC
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003474|Rv3266c|rmlD
MAGRSERLVITGAGGQLGSHLTAQAAREGRDMLALTSSQWDITDPAAAERIIRHGDVVINCAAYTDVDGAESNEAVAYAVNATGPQHLARACARVGARLIHVSTDYVFDGDFGGAEPRPYEPTDETAPQGVYARSKLAGEQAVLAAFPEAAVVRTAWVYTGGTGKDFVAVMRRLAAGHGRVDVVDDQTGSPTYVADLAEALLALADAGVRGRVLHAANEGVVSRFGQARAVFEECGADPQRVRPVSSAQFPRPAPRPSYSALSSRQWALAGLTPLRHWRSALATALAAPANSTSIDRRLPSTRD