Rv3364c Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3364c · MTBC0 mtbc0_003579 · 130 aa · 3801190–3801582 (-) · RefSeq NP_217881.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)hypothetical protein
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationserine protease inhibitor
Revised (this work)Serine protease inhibitor. Pfam: Robl_LC7 (PF03259.24).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt O50393 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameSerine protease inhibitor Rv3364c
Curated functionEffector protein that binds to the host serine protease cathepsin G on the macrophage cell membrane, inhibiting its enzymatic activity and the downstream activation of caspase-1-dependent apoptosis. Thus prevents macrophage pyroptosis and helps M.tuberculosis survival within host cells.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category S Function unknown
eggNOG descriptionPFAM Roadblock LC7
Orthologous groupCOG2018
KEGG orthology K07131

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 0.723 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 1 synonymous, 2 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
Robl_LC7PF03259.24 2.3e-2410–101 Roadblock/LC7 domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: Rv3362c (ATP/GTP-binding protein), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 1000 excluding text-mining). This association is the citable seed of a function hypothesis for this hypothetical protein.

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3362c ATP/GTP-binding protein 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:882 cooccurence:774 coexpression:807 experimental:917 textmining:838
Rv3363c hyp hypothetical protein 997 984 ctx neighborhood:882 cooccurence:774 coexpression:458 textmining:870
Rv3365c hyp hypothetical protein 994 973 ctx neighborhood:882 cooccurence:769 textmining:810
Rv3361c mfpA hyp hypothetical protein 984 887 ctx neighborhood:882 textmining:870
Rv3366 spoU tRNA/rRNA methylase SpoU 493 492 ctx neighborhood:486
Rv0585c integral membrane protein 452 453 ctx cooccurence:451
Rv0923c hyp hypothetical protein 429 429 ctx cooccurence:423
Rv0047c hyp hypothetical protein 422 422 ctx cooccurence:421
Rv2068c blaC beta-lactamase 706 195 textmining:651
Rv3151 nuoG NADH-quinone oxidoreductase subunit G 582 179 textmining:513
Rv3671c marP serine protease 640 83 textmining:624
Rv3654c hyp hypothetical protein 659 45 textmining:658
Rv0198c zmp1 zinc metalloprotease 521 44 textmining:520
Rv3354 hyp hypothetical protein 803 41 textmining:803

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: serine protease inhibitor
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Robl_LC7 PF03259.24 (E=2e-24)
  • (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_217881.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Robl_LC7 (PF03259.24)
  • 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 COG2018
  • Curated reference: UniProt O50393 (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 — 14 functional partner(s); context anchor Rv3362c
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003579|Rv3364c|
MKARLPDSPLDWLVSKFAREVPGVAHALLVSVDGLPVAASEHLPRERADQLAAVTSGLASLAGGAAQLFDGGQVLQSVVEMQNGYLLLMQVGDGSALAALAATGCDIGQIGYEMAILVERVGGVVQSCRR