Rv3371 Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3371 · MTBC0 mtbc0_003586 · 446 aa · 3811649–3812989 (+) · RefSeq NP_217888.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)diacyglycerol O-acyltransferase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationdiacylglycerol O-acyltransferase
Revised (this work)Diacylglycerol O-acyltransferase. Pfam: WS_DGAT_cat (PF03007.22), WS_DGAT_C (PF06974.19).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WKA9 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt namePutative diacyglycerol O-acyltransferase Rv3371
EC (curated) EC 2.3.1.20
Curated functionCatalyzes the terminal and only committed step in triacylglycerol synthesis by using diacylglycerol and fatty acyl CoA as substrates. Required for storage lipid synthesis..; FUNCTION: Upon expression in E.coli functions weakly as a triacylglycerol synthase, making triacylglycerol (TG) from diolein and long-chain fatty acyl-CoA. Has no wax synthase activity to produce wax esters.

UniProt still lists this protein as Putative diacyglycerol O-acyltransferase Rv3371; the revised annotation above is ahead of the current UniProt record.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category Q Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport and catabolism
eggNOG descriptionWax ester synthase-like Acyl-CoA acyltransferase domain
Orthologous groupCOG1020
Gene Ontology (60) GO:0000302, GO:0001666, GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0004144, GO:0005575, GO:0005618, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0006629, GO:0006638, GO:0006639 +48 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 4.938 · diversifying/relaxed
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 1 synonymous, 14 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
WS_DGAT_catPF03007.22 1.4e-414–237 Wax ester synthase/diacylglycerol acyltransferase catalytic domain
WS_DGAT_CPF06974.19 1.6e-14272–399 WS/DGAT C-terminal domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: Rv3233c (Rv3233c, (MTCY20B11.08c), len: 196 aa. Possible triacylglycerol synthase (See Daniel et al., 2004), similar to C-terminus of Q9RIU8|SCM11.13), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 772 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3097c lipY triacylglycerol lipase Lip 912 913 database:900
Rv2252 dagK diacylglycerol kinase 900 900 database:900
Rv3233c Rv3233c, (MTCY20B11.08c), len: 196 aa. Possible triacylglycerol synthase (See Daniel et al., 2004), similar to C-terminus of Q9RIU8|SCM11.13 839 772 ctx cooccurence:772
Rv3372 otsB2 trehalose 6-phosphate phosphatase 737 726 ctx neighborhood:682
Rv2627c hyp hypothetical protein 678 667 ctx cooccurence:505
Rv1192 hyp hypothetical protein 654 654 ctx cooccurence:652
Rv1543 oxidoreductase 670 547 ctx cooccurence:536
Rv3370c dnaE2 error-prone DNA polymerase 521 521 ctx neighborhood:500
Rv3825c pks2 phthioceranic/hydroxyphthioceranic acid synthase 572 506 experimental:441
Rv0547c oxidoreductase 505 505 ctx cooccurence:493
Rv2933 ppsC phthiocerol synthesis polyketide synthase type I PpsC 531 504 experimental:441
Rv2940c mas multifunctional mycocerosic acid synthase 608 501 experimental:441
Rv2048c pks12 polyketide synthase 527 500 experimental:441
Rv1527c pks5 polyketide synthase 526 498 experimental:441
Rv3391 acrA1 acyl-CoA-reductase AcrA 752 493 ctx cooccurence:459 textmining:531

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: diacyglycerol O-acyltransferase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: diacylglycerol O-acyltransferase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): WS_DGAT_cat PF03007.22 (E=1e-41), WS_DGAT_C PF06974.19 (E=2e-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_217888.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — WS_DGAT_cat (PF03007.22), WS_DGAT_C (PF06974.19)
  • 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 COG1020
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WKA9 (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 — 42 functional partner(s); context anchor Rv3233c
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003586|Rv3371|
MAQLTALDAGFLKSRDPERHPGLAIGAVAVVNGAAPSYDQLKTVLTERIKSIPRCTQVLATEWIDYPGFDLTQHVRRVALPRPGDEAELFRAIALALERPLDPDRPLWECWIIEGLNGNRWAILIKIHHCMAGAMSAAHLLARLCDDADGSAFANNVDIKQIPPYGDARSWAETLWRMSVSIAGAVCTAAARAVSWPAVTSPAGPVTTRRRYQAVRVPRDAVDAVCHKFGVTANDVALAAITEGFRTVLLHRGQQPRADSLRTLEKTDGSSAMLPYLPVEYDDPVRRLRTVHNRSQQSGRRQPDSLSDYTPLMLCAKMIHALARLPQQGIVTLATSAPGPRHQLRLMGQKMDQVLPIPPTALQLSTGVAVLSYGDELVFGITADYDAASEMQQLVNGIELGVARLVALSDDSVLLFTKDRRKRSSRALPSAARRGRPSVPTARARH