ltp4 Family assigned · low auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3522 · MTBC0 mtbc0_003738 · 354 aa · 3982125–3983189 (+) · RefSeq NP_218039.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)lipid transfer protein
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationthiolase domain-containing protein
Revised (this work)Thiolase domain-containing protein.

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt O53567 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt namePossible lipid transfer protein or keto acyl-CoA thiolase Ltp4

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category I Lipid transport and metabolism
Preferred nameltp4
eggNOG descriptionlipid-transfer protein
Orthologous groupCOG0183

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 0.211 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 10 synonymous, 6 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)

No Pfam-A domain above the gathering threshold (or not yet scanned).

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

Closest characterised functional partner: ltp3 (lipid carrier protein), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 917 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3521 hyp hypothetical protein 996 989 ctx neighborhood:863 cooccurence:774 coexpression:453 experimental:415 textmining:705
Rv0860 fadB fatty oxidation protein FadB 967 966 coexpression:697 experimental:804 database:447
Rv3542c chsH2 hyp hypothetical protein 940 920 ctx cooccurence:770 coexpression:438 experimental:415
Rv3523 ltp3 lipid carrier protein 966 917 ctx neighborhood:861 textmining:618
Rv3550 echA20 enoyl-CoA hydratase EchA20 928 909 ctx cooccurence:649 database:447
Rv3541c chsH1 hyp hypothetical protein 885 860 ctx cooccurence:773
Rv3504 fadE26 acyl-CoA dehydrogenase FadE26 894 843 ctx cooccurence:733
Rv3516 echA19 enoyl-CoA hydratase EchA19 970 840 database:447 textmining:826
Rv3543c fadE29 acyl-CoA dehydrogenase FadE29 968 838 ctx cooccurence:721 textmining:815
Rv3573c fadE34 acyl-CoA dehydrogenase FadE34 901 826 ctx cooccurence:704 textmining:456
Rv3552 CoA-transferase subunit beta 824 816 ctx cooccurence:761
Rv3520c coenzyme F420-dependent oxidoreductase 943 815 ctx neighborhood:760 textmining:705
Rv3551 CoA-transferase subunit alpha 815 807 ctx cooccurence:755
Rv3562 fadE31 acyl-CoA dehydrogenase FadE31 834 802 ctx cooccurence:664
Rv3544c fadE28 acyl-CoA dehydrogenase FadE28 897 789 ctx cooccurence:642 textmining:535

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: lipid transfer protein
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: thiolase domain-containing protein
  • (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_218039.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — none above threshold
  • 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 COG0183
  • Curated reference: UniProt O53567 (TrEMBL, unreviewed; 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 — 150 functional partner(s); context anchor ltp3
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003738|Rv3522|ltp4
MSVRDIAVVGFAHAPHVRRTDGTTNGVEMLMPCFAQLYDELGITKADIGFWCSGSSDYLAGRAFSFISAIDSIGAVPPINESHVEMDAAWALYEAYIKLLTGEVDTALVYGFGKSSAGTLRRVLSRQTDPYTVAPLWPDSVSMAGLQARLGLDSGKWTHEQMARVAFDSFTNARRVDSVEPPITVGELLARPFFADPLRRHDIAPITDGAAAVVLAADNRARELRENPAWITGIEHRIESPALGARDITESPSTKLAAKIATGGHTGDIDVAEIHGPFTHQHLIVAEAIRIPGKTKVNPSGGPLAANPMFAAGLERIGFAAQHIWDGSARRVLAHATSGPALQQNLVAVMEGRG