kshA Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3526 · MTBC0 mtbc0_003742 · 386 aa · 3986116–3987276 (+) · RefSeq NP_218043.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)3-ketosteroid-9-alpha-monooxygenase oxygenase subunit
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation3-ketosteroid-9-alpha-hydroxylase subunit KshA
Revised (this work)3-ketosteroid-9-alpha-hydroxylase subunit KshA. Pfam: Rieske (PF00355.33), KshA_C (PF19298.6).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P71875 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt name3-ketosteroid-9-alpha-monooxygenase, oxygenase component
EC (curated) EC 1.14.15.30
Curated functionInvolved in the degradation of cholesterol. Catalyzes the introduction of a 9a-hydroxyl moiety into 1,4-androstadiene-3,17-dione (ADD) to yield the 9alpha-hydroxy-1,4-androstadiene-3,17-dione (9OHADD) intermediate which spontaneously form 3-hydroxy-9,10-seconandrost-1,3,5(10)-triene-9,17-dione (HSA) via the meta-cleavage of ring B with concomitant aromatization of ring A. KSH is also able to use 4-androstene-3,17-dione (AD), 3-oxo-23,24-bisnorcholesta-4-en-22-oate (4-BNC), 3-oxo-23,24-bisnorcholesta-1,4-dien-22-oate (1,4-BNC), 3-oxo-23,24-bisnorcholesta-4-en-22-oyl-coenzyme A thioester (4-BNC-.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category P Inorganic ion transport and metabolism
Preferred namekshA
eggNOG descriptionRieske 2Fe-2S
Orthologous groupCOG4638
EC number EC 1.14.13.142
KEGG orthology K15982
KEGG pathways map00984, map01100, map01120
Gene Ontology (71) GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0004497, GO:0005488, GO:0005506, GO:0006066, GO:0006629, GO:0006694, GO:0006706, GO:0006707, GO:0008150, GO:0008152 +59 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 0.213 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 4 synonymous, 3 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
RieskePF00355.33 6.2e-2226–109 Rieske [2Fe-2S] domain
KshA_CPF19298.6 1.8e-87128–337 3-Ketosteroid 9alpha-hydroxylase C-terminal domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: kstD (3-oxosteroid 1-dehydrogenase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 978 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3537 kstD 3-oxosteroid 1-dehydrogenase 998 978 ctx cooccurence:753 database:900 textmining:932
Rv3527 hyp hypothetical protein 979 977 ctx neighborhood:882 cooccurence:692 coexpression:409
Rv3571 kshB 3-ketosteroid-9-alpha-hydroxylase reductase subunit 998 959 ctx cooccurence:450 database:900 textmining:964
Rv3531c hyp hypothetical protein 817 817 ctx cooccurence:766
Rv3568c hsaC extradiol dioxygenase 974 802 ctx cooccurence:774 textmining:878
Rv3570c hsaA flavin-dependent monooxygenase oxygenase subunit HsaA 959 801 ctx cooccurence:772 textmining:806
Rv3529c hyp hypothetical protein 797 798 ctx cooccurence:765
Rv3525c siderophore-binding protein 780 779 ctx neighborhood:778
Rv3542c chsH2 hyp hypothetical protein 778 778 ctx cooccurence:766
Rv3521 hyp hypothetical protein 774 775 ctx cooccurence:760
Rv3541c chsH1 hyp hypothetical protein 776 768 ctx cooccurence:760
Rv3552 CoA-transferase subunit beta 800 755 ctx cooccurence:745
Rv3551 CoA-transferase subunit alpha 766 751 ctx cooccurence:741
Rv3522 ltp4 lipid transfer protein 748 738 ctx cooccurence:719
Rv0760c hyp hypothetical protein 736 736 ctx cooccurence:728

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: 3-ketosteroid-9-alpha-monooxygenase oxygenase subunit
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: 3-ketosteroid-9-alpha-hydroxylase subunit KshA
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Rieske PF00355.33 (E=6e-22), KshA_C PF19298.6 (E=2e-87)
  • (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_218043.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Rieske (PF00355.33), KshA_C (PF19298.6)
  • 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 COG4638
  • Curated reference: UniProt P71875 (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 — 56 functional partner(s); context anchor kstD
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003742|Rv3526|kshA
MSTDTSGVGVREIDAGALPTRYARGWHCLGVAKDYLEGKPHGVEAFGTKLVVFADSHGDLKVLDGYCRHMGGDLSEGTVKGDEVACPFHDWRWGGDGRCKLVPYARRTPRMARTRSWTTDVRSGLLFVWHDHEGNPPDPAVRIPEIPEAASDEWTDWRWNRILIEGSNCRDIIDNVTDMAHFFYIHFGLPTYFKNVFEGHIASQYLHNVGRPDVDDLGTSYGEAHLDSEASYFGPSFMINWLHNRYGNYKSESILINCHYPVTQNSFVLQWGVIVEKPKGMSEEMTDKLSRVFTEGVSKGFLQDVEIWKHKTRIDNPLLVEEDGAVYQLRRWYEQFYVDVADIKPEMVERFEIEVDTKRANEFWNAEVEKNLKSREVSDDVPAEQH