lipF Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3487c · MTBC0 - · 277 aa · 3906174–3907007 (-) · RefSeq NP_218004.3

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)carboxylesterase LipF
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Carboxylesterase LipF. Pfam: BD-FAE (PF20434.6), Say1_Mug180 (PF10340.16), Abhydrolase_3 (PF07859.20).

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 O06350 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameCarboxylesterase/phospholipase LipF
EC (curated) EC 3.1.1.1, EC 3.1.4.3
Curated functionHydrolyzes short-chain esters. Shows maximal activity with triacetin and p-nitrophenyl acetate. Has no enzyme activity on triacylglycerides or p-nitrophenyl esters (p-NP) with long fatty acids (tricaprin, p-NP caprylate, or p-NP caprate); experiments performed with enzyme missing the first 97 residues. Has phospholipase C activity, making 1,2-DAG phosphocholine; experiments performed with enzyme missing the first 97 residues.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category I Lipid transport and metabolism
Preferred namelipF
eggNOG descriptionAlpha beta hydrolase
Orthologous groupCOG0657
Gene Ontology (33) GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0004620, GO:0004629, GO:0008081, GO:0008150, GO:0009268, GO:0009605, GO:0009607, GO:0009628, GO:0010447, GO:0016298 +21 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 n/a
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 0 synonymous, 7 missense, 2 nonsense, 2 frameshift
Disruption 4 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 6.00% of strains (8711) · convergent

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
BD-FAEPF20434.6 4.9e-0913–100 BD-FAE
Say1_Mug180PF10340.16 3.3e-0914–124 Steryl acetyl hydrolase
Abhydrolase_3PF07859.20 5.9e-4516–222 alpha/beta hydrolase fold

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

Closest characterised functional partner: lipY (triacylglycerol lipase Lip), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 758 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3097c lipY triacylglycerol lipase Lip 856 758 ctx cooccurence:758 textmining:433
Rv0722 rpmD 50S ribosomal protein L30 497 497 database:490
Rv2903c lepB signal peptidase 513 494 database:464
Rv0310c hyp hypothetical protein 479 475 experimental:439
Rv3153 nuoI NADH-quinone oxidoreductase subunit I 556 464 experimental:440
Rv3151 nuoG NADH-quinone oxidoreductase subunit G 485 463 experimental:441
Rv3150 nuoF NADH-quinone oxidoreductase subunit F 461 461 experimental:441
Rv3149 nuoE NADH-quinone oxidoreductase subunit E 456 457 experimental:440
Rv0220 lipC esterase LipC 796 440 ctx cooccurence:432 textmining:652
Rv2195 qcrA ubiquinol-cytochrome C reductase rieske iron-sulfur subunit 442 436 experimental:426
Rv2946c pks1 polyketide synthase 478 427
Rv3825c pks2 phthioceranic/hydroxyphthioceranic acid synthase 629 420
Rv2782c pepR zinc protease 442 417 experimental:413
Rv1181 pks4 polyketide beta-ketoacyl synthase 607 410
Rv3152 nuoH NADH-quinone oxidoreductase subunit H 472 409

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): carboxylesterase LipF
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): BD-FAE PF20434.6 (E=5e-09), Say1_Mug180 PF10340.16 (E=3e-09), Abhydrolase_3 PF07859.20 (E=6e-45)
  • (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_218004.3)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — BD-FAE (PF20434.6), Say1_Mug180 (PF10340.16), Abhydrolase_3 (PF07859.20)
  • 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 COG0657
  • Curated reference: UniProt O06350 (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 — 48 functional partner(s); context anchor lipY
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv3487c|lipF
MRAPGVRAADGAGRVVLYLHGGAFVMCGPNSHSRIVNALSGFAESPVLIVDYRLIPKHSLGMALDDCHDAYQWLRARGYRPEQIVLAGDSAGGYLALALAQRLQCDDEKPAAIVAISPLLQLAKGPKQDHPNIGTDAMFPARAFDALAAWVRAAAAKNMVDGRPEDLYEPLDHIESSLPPTLIHVSGSEVLLHDAQLGAGKLAAAGVCAEVRVWPGQAHLFQLATPLVPEATRSLRQIGQFIRDATADSSLSPVHRSRYVAGSPRAASRGAFGQSPI