sseA Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3283 · MTBC0 mtbc0_003491 · 297 aa · 3687008–3687901 (+) · RefSeq NP_217800.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)thiosulfate sulfurtransferase SseA
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationsulfurtransferase
Revised (this work)Sulfurtransferase. Pfam: Rhodanese (PF00581.26).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WHF7 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt namePutative thiosulfate sulfurtransferase SseA
EC (curated) EC 2.8.1.1

UniProt still lists this protein as Putative thiosulfate sulfurtransferase SseA; the revised annotation above is ahead of the current UniProt record.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category P Inorganic ion transport and metabolism
Preferred namesseA
eggNOG descriptionsulfurtransferase
Orthologous groupCOG2897
EC number EC 2.8.1.1, EC 2.8.1.2
KEGG orthology K01011
KEGG pathways map00270, map00920, map01100, map01120, map04122
Gene Ontology (13) GO:0005575, GO:0005618, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0005829, GO:0005886, GO:0016020, GO:0030312, GO:0044424, GO:0044444, GO:0044464 +1 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 0.531 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 3 synonymous, 4 missense, 1 nonsense, 0 frameshift
Disruption 1 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.18% of strains (265) · 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)

PfamAccessioni-EvalueResiduesDescription
RhodanesePF00581.26 2.3e-17164–279 Rhodanese-like domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: accD5 (propionyl-CoA carboxylase subunit beta), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 826 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3284 hyp hypothetical protein 957 957 ctx neighborhood:882 cooccurence:632
Rv2291 sseB thiosulfate sulfurtransferase SseB 941 928 database:900
Rv3025c iscS cysteine desulfurase 922 915 database:900
Rv0815c cysA2 thiosulfate sulfurtransferase CysA 908 906 database:900
Rv2391 sirA sulfite reductase 912 904 database:900
Rv2392 cysH phosphoadenosine phosphosulfate reductase 909 904 database:900
Rv0075 aminotransferase 900 901 database:900
Rv2294 cystathionine beta-lyase 900 900 database:900
Rv3280 accD5 propionyl-CoA carboxylase subunit beta 877 826 ctx neighborhood:822
Rv3282 hyp hypothetical protein 830 823 ctx neighborhood:822
Rv3281 accE5 bifunctional protein acetyl-/propionyl-CoAcarboxylase subunit epsilon AccE 823 823 ctx neighborhood:822
Rv3684 lyase 851 820 database:800
Rv2334 cysK1 O-acetylserine sulfhydrylase 829 820 database:800
Rv1079 metB cystathionine gamma-synthase 839 816 database:800
Rv0391 metZ O-succinylhomoserine sulfhydrylase 830 816 database:800

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: thiosulfate sulfurtransferase SseA
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: sulfurtransferase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Rhodanese PF00581.26 (E=2e-17)
  • (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_217800.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Rhodanese (PF00581.26)
  • 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 COG2897
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WHF7 (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 — 33 functional partner(s); context anchor accD5
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003491|Rv3283|sseA
MPLPADPSPTLSAYAHPERLVTADWLSAHMGAPGLAIVESDEDVLLYDVGHIPGAVKIDWHTDLNDPRVRDYINGEQFAELMDRKGIARDDTVVIYGDKSNWWAAYALWVFTLFGHADVRLLNGGRDLWLAERRETTLDVPTKTCTGYPVVQRNDAPIRAFRDDVLAILGAQPLIDVRSPEEYTGKRTHMPDYPEEGALRAGHIPTAVHIPWGKAADESGRFRSREELERLYDFINPDDQTVVYCRIGERSSHTWFVLTHLLGKADVRNYDGSWTEWGNAVRVPIVAGEEPGVVPVV