vapB47 Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3407 · MTBC0 - · 99 aa · 3826252–3826551 (+) · RefSeq NP_217924.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)antitoxin VapB47
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Antitoxin VapB47. Pfam: PhdYeFM_antitox (PF02604.27).

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

Annotated on the H37Rv protein: this gene has no 1:1 ancestral MTBC0 anchor (PE/PPE, paralogue, IS element, or otherwise unanchored CDS).

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WF23 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameAntitoxin VapB47
Curated functionAntitoxin component of a type II toxin-antitoxin (TA) system. Upon expression in M.smegmatis neutralizes the effect of cognate toxin VapC47.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category D Cell cycle control, cell division, chromosome partitioning
eggNOG descriptionAntitoxin component of a toxin-antitoxin (TA) module
Orthologous groupCOG4118
Gene Ontology (6) GO:0008150, GO:0040008, GO:0045927, GO:0048518, GO:0050789, GO:0065007

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, 1 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
PhdYeFM_antitoxPF02604.27 4.6e-0810–56 Antitoxin Phd_YefM, type II toxin-antitoxin system

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

Closest characterised functional partner: vapC47 (ribonuclease VapC47), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 992 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3408 vapC47 ribonuclease VapC47 991 992 ctx neighborhood:882 cooccurence:672 coexpression:800
Rv1962c vapC35 ribonuclease VapC35 712 713 ctx cooccurence:674
Rv3384c vapC46 ribonuclease VapC46 699 699 ctx cooccurence:688
Rv3406 dioxygenase 668 669 ctx neighborhood:669
Rv0665 vapC8 ribonuclease VapC8 642 642 ctx cooccurence:541
Rv0065 vapC1 ribonuclease VapC1 625 625 ctx cooccurence:613
Rv3098A PemK-like protein 614 615 ctx cooccurence:614
Rv3180c vapC49 ribonuclease VapC45 613 613 ctx cooccurence:600
Rv3385c vapB46 antitoxin VapB46 612 612 ctx cooccurence:610
Rv3732 hyp hypothetical protein 588 588 ctx cooccurence:588
Rv0960 vapC9 ribonuclease VapC9 558 559 ctx cooccurence:543
Rv1102c mazF3 mRNA interferase MazF3 548 549 ctx cooccurence:543
Rv2113 integral membrane protein 547 547 ctx cooccurence:547
Rv1720c vapC12 ribonuclease VapC12 538 539 ctx cooccurence:524
Rv0456A mazF1 toxin MazF1 509 510 ctx cooccurence:508

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

  • Annotation from H37Rv (no MTBC0 1:1 anchor; H37Rv protein used): antitoxin VapB47
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): PhdYeFM_antitox PF02604.27 (E=5e-08)
  • (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_217924.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — PhdYeFM_antitox (PF02604.27)
  • 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 COG4118
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WF23 (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 — 43 functional partner(s); context anchor vapC47
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv3407|vapB47
MRATVGLVEAIGIRELRQHASRYLARVEAGEELGVTNKGRLVARLIPVQAAERSREALIESGVLIPARRPQNLLDVTAEPARGRKRTLSDVLNEMRDEQ