Rv3268 Family assigned · low

H37Rv Rv3268 · MTBC0 - · 229 aa · 3649420–3650109 (+) · RefSeq NP_217785.3

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)hypothetical protein
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)TIGR03089-family protein, uncharacterised. NOTE: the acetyl-CoA-synthetase fold is shared, but the genuine Mtb acetyl-CoA synthetase is Rv3667 (acsA), a different gene.

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 P96873 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameTIGR03089 family protein

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category I Lipid transport and metabolism
Q Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport and catabolism
eggNOG descriptionCOG0365 Acyl-coenzyme A synthetases AMP-(fatty) acid ligases
Orthologous groupCOG0318

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 0.758 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 3 synonymous, 5 missense, 1 nonsense, 0 frameshift
Disruption 1 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.40% of strains (585) · clonal

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)

No Pfam-A domain above the gathering threshold (or not yet scanned).

Structural neighbours (Foldseek on the ESMFold model, exploratory)

ESMFold model confidence: mean pLDDT 96.4 (very high). A confident model makes the fold comparison meaningful.

Best matches against the PDB, ranked by Foldseek homology probability. A high probability / TM-score suggests a shared fold; unless flagged sig (E < 0.01) these are fold hypotheses, not assignments.

TargetProbTME-valueDescription
2p2q-assembly1_A 1.00 0.82 6.1e-11 sig 2p2q-assembly1_A Acetyl-CoA Synthetase, R584E mutation
8biq-assembly1_C 1.00 0.79 3.9e-11 sig 8biq-assembly1_C Crystal structure of acyl-COA synthetase from Metallosphaera sedula in complex with acetyl-AMP
2p2f-assembly1_A 1.00 0.82 6.5e-11 sig 2p2f-assembly1_A Acetyl-CoA Synthetase, wild-type with acetate, AMP, and CoA bound
8rwj-assembly1_D 1.00 0.84 1.5e-10 sig 8rwj-assembly1_D cryoEM structure of Acs1 filament determined by FilamentID
2p2m-assembly1_A 1.00 0.82 2.0e-10 sig 2p2m-assembly1_A Acetyl-CoA Synthetase, R194A mutation
2p2m-assembly2_B 1.00 0.83 2.2e-10 sig 2p2m-assembly2_B Acetyl-CoA Synthetase, R194A mutation
2p20-assembly2_B 1.00 0.83 2.4e-10 sig 2p20-assembly2_B Acetyl-CoA Synthetase, R584A mutation
2p2j-assembly2_B 1.00 0.82 3.1e-10 sig 2p2j-assembly2_B Acetyl-CoA Synthetase, K609A mutation

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

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3267 lcp1 hyp hypothetical protein 951 951 ctx neighborhood:825 coexpression:734
Rv1312 hyp hypothetical protein 697 697 ctx cooccurence:697
Rv0719 rplF 50S ribosomal protein L6 697 697 experimental:402 database:510
Rv1527c pks5 polyketide synthase 709 684
Rv2940c mas multifunctional mycocerosic acid synthase 707 682
Rv3825c pks2 phthioceranic/hydroxyphthioceranic acid synthase 706 681
Rv2048c pks12 polyketide synthase 706 681
Rv2933 ppsC phthiocerol synthesis polyketide synthase type I PpsC 705 680
Rv3800c pks13 polyketide synthase 673 641
Rv2946c pks1 polyketide synthase 665 633
Rv3807c decaprenylphosphoryl-5-phosphoribose phosphatase 612 610 database:500
Rv3839 hyp hypothetical protein 609 609 ctx cooccurence:609
Rv1661 pks7 polyketide synthase 630 608
Rv2932 ppsB phthiocerol synthesis polyketide synthase type I PpsB 629 608
Rv1181 pks4 polyketide beta-ketoacyl synthase 629 608

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

  • PGAP: hypothetical; Pfam family TIGR03089
  • Foldseek fold = acetyl-CoA synthetase, but that enzyme is Rv3667 (paralogue-of-fold trap)

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_217785.3)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — none above threshold
  • 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 COG0318
  • Curated reference: UniProt P96873 (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)
  • Model confidence: ESMFold per-residue pLDDT (mean 96.4, very high)
  • Interaction network: STRING v12.0 (Szklarczyk et al. 2023, doi:10.1093/nar/gkac1000), taxon 83332, CC-BY 4.0 — 91 functional partner(s)
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv3268|
MLRADPVGPRITYYDDATGERIELSAVTLANWAAKTGNLLRDELAAGPASRVAILLPAHWQTAAVLFGVWWIGAQAILDDSPADVALCTADRLAEADAVVNSAAVAGEVAVLSLDPFGRPATGLPVGVTDYATAVRVHGDQIVPEHNPGPVLAGRSVEQILRDCAASAAARGLTAADRVLSTASWAGPDELVDGLLAILAAGASLVQVANPDPAMLQRRIATEKVTRVL