lrpA Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3291c · MTBC0 mtbc0_003499 · 150 aa · 3693925–3694377 (-) · RefSeq NP_217808.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)transcriptional regulator LrpA
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationtranscriptional regulator LrpA
Revised (this work)Transcriptional regulator LrpA. Pfam: HTH_24 (PF13412.13), HTH_AsnC-type (PF13404.13), AsnC_trans_reg (PF01037.29).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt I6YBQ3 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameHTH-type transcriptional regulator LrpA
Curated functionTranscriptional regulator that probably plays an important role in M.tuberculosis persistence. Regulates the expression of several genes, including lat, rsmG, whiB2, lsr2 and Rv2011c. Acts by binding directly to the promoter region of the target genes.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category K Transcription
Preferred namelrp_3
eggNOG descriptionAsnC family
Orthologous groupCOG1522
KEGG orthology K03719

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 n/a
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 0 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
HTH_24PF13412.13 3.5e-135–52 Winged helix-turn-helix DNA-binding
HTH_AsnC-typePF13404.13 8.5e-135–46 AsnC-type helix-turn-helix domain
AsnC_trans_regPF01037.29 7.1e-1468–146 Lrp/AsnC ligand binding domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: lat (L-lysine-epsilon aminotransferase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 852 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3290c lat L-lysine-epsilon aminotransferase 982 852 ctx neighborhood:813 textmining:884
Rv3292 hyp hypothetical protein 840 841 ctx neighborhood:790
Rv3167c TetR family transcriptional regulator 815 810 coexpression:810
Rv1151c cobB NAD-dependent protein deacylase 807 806 coexpression:800
Rv0691c mftR mycofactocin biosynthesis transcriptional regulator MftR 809 804 coexpression:804
Rv0117 oxyS oxidative stress response regulatory protein OxyS 813 803 coexpression:803
Rv3293 pcd piperideine-6-carboxylic acid dehydrogenase 809 802 ctx neighborhood:764
Rv1960c parD1 antitoxin ParD1 802 802 coexpression:802
Rv1359 transcriptional regulator 802 802 coexpression:802
Rv3840 transcriptional regulator 800 800 coexpression:800
Rv0603 hyp hypothetical protein 799 799 coexpression:799
Rv0212c nadR transcriptional regulator NadR 805 798 coexpression:798
Rv3830c TetR family transcriptional regulator 803 798 coexpression:798
Rv1267c embR transcriptional regulator EmbR 798 798 coexpression:798
Rv1740 vapB34 antitoxin VapB34 797 797 coexpression:797

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: transcriptional regulator LrpA
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: transcriptional regulator LrpA
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): HTH_24 PF13412.13 (E=4e-13), HTH_AsnC-type PF13404.13 (E=9e-13), AsnC_trans_reg PF01037.29 (E=7e-14)
  • (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_217808.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — HTH_24 (PF13412.13), HTH_AsnC-type (PF13404.13), AsnC_trans_reg (PF01037.29)
  • 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 COG1522
  • Curated reference: UniProt I6YBQ3 (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 — 67 functional partner(s); context anchor lat
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003499|Rv3291c|lrpA
MNEALDDIDRILVRELAADGRATLSELATRAGLSVSAVQSRVRRLESRGVVQGYSARINPEAVGHLLSAFVAITPLDPSQPDDAPARLEHIEEVESCYSVAGEESYVLLVRVASARALEDLLQRIRTTANVRTRSTIILNTFYSDRQHIP