Rv3272 Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3272 · MTBC0 mtbc0_003480 · 394 aa · 3675591–3676775 (+) · RefSeq NP_217789.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)hypothetical protein
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationCoA transferase
Revised (this work)CoA transferase. Pfam: CoA_transf_3 (PF02515.23).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P96877 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameProbable fatty acyl-CoA transferase Rv3272
EC (curated) EC 2.8.3.-
Curated functionProbably involved in fatty acid metabolism. Binds to fatty acyl-CoAs of varying carbon chain lengths, with the highest binding affinity for palmitoyl-CoA (C16:0). In vitro, alters the cell wall lipid profile and protects mycobacteria from acidic, oxidative and antibiotic stress. May play a significant role in host-pathogen interaction.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category C Energy production and conversion
eggNOG descriptionCoA-transferase family III
Orthologous groupCOG1804

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 2.061 · diversifying/relaxed
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 1 synonymous, 6 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
CoA_transf_3PF02515.23 4.0e-11810–387 CoA-transferase family III

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

Closest characterised functional partner: Rv3273 (transmembrane carbonic anhydrase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 820 excluding text-mining). This association is the citable seed of a function hypothesis for this hypothetical protein.

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3273 transmembrane carbonic anhydrase 820 820 ctx neighborhood:810
Rv3271c integral membrane protein 782 782 ctx neighborhood:781
Rv0400c fadE7 acyl-CoA dehydrogenase FadE7 559 543
Rv0118c oxcA oxalyl-CoA decarboxylase OxcA 549 527
Rv0983 pepD serine protease PepD 489 490 database:482
Rv1223 htrA serine protease HtrA 489 490 database:482
Rv3671c marP serine protease 489 489 database:482
Rv0125 pepA serine protease PepA 487 487 database:482
Rv1679 fadE16 acyl-CoA dehydrogenase FadE16 503 485
Rv1043c hyp hypothetical protein 485 485 database:482
Rv2499c oxidase regulatory-like protein 489 470
Rv1346 mbtN acyl-[acyl-carrier-protein 486 468
Rv0636 hadB (3R)-hydroxyacyl-ACP dehydratase subunit HadB 483 463
Rv2524c fas fatty acid synthase 608 452
Rv3672c hyp hypothetical protein 451 451

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: hypothetical protein
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: CoA transferase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): CoA_transf_3 PF02515.23 (E=4e-118)
  • (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_217789.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — CoA_transf_3 (PF02515.23)
  • 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 COG1804
  • Curated reference: UniProt P96877 (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 — 26 functional partner(s); context anchor Rv3273
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003480|Rv3272|
MPTSNPAKPLDGFRVLDFTQNVAGPLAGQVLVDLGAEVIKVEAPGGEAARQITSVLPGRPPLATYFLPNNRGKKSVTVDLTTEQAKQQMLRLADTADVVLEAFRPGTMEKLGLGPDDLRSRNPNLIYARLTAYGGNGPHGSRPGIDLVVAAEAGMTTGMPTPEGKPQIIPFQLVDNASGHVLAQAVLAALLHRERNGVADVVQVAMYDVAVGLQANQLMMHLNRAASDQPKPEPAPKAKRRKGVGFATQPSDAFRTADGYIVISAYVPKHWQKLCYLIGRPDLVEDQRFAEQRSRSINYAELTAELELALASKTATEWVQLLQANGLMACLAHTWKQVVDTPLFAENDLTLEVGRGADTITVIRTPARYASFRAVVTDPPPTAGEHNAVFLARP