fadA5 Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3546 · MTBC0 mtbc0_003763 · 391 aa · 4009234–4010409 (+) · RefSeq NP_218063.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase FadA
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationsteroid 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase
Revised (this work)Steroid 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase. Pfam: Thiolase_N (PF00108.30), Thiolase_C (PF02803.25).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt I6XHI4 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameSteroid 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase
EC (curated) EC 2.3.1.16
Curated functionInvolved in the beta-oxidation of the cholesterol side chain. It is important for utilization of cholesterol as a sole carbon source in vitro and for full virulence in the chronic stage of mouse lung infection. Catalyzes the thiolysis of 3,22-dioxochol-4-en-24-oyl-CoA to yield 3-oxo-4-pregnene-20-carboxyl-CoA (3-OPC-CoA) and acetyl-CoA. Also able to use acetoacetyl-CoA (AcAcCoA) as substrate.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category I Lipid transport and metabolism
Preferred namefadA5
eggNOG descriptionBelongs to the thiolase family
Orthologous groupCOG0183
EC number EC 2.3.1.9
KEGG orthology K00626
KEGG pathways map00071, map00072, map00280, map00310, map00362, map00380, map00620, map00630, map00640, map00650, map00720, map00900, map01100, map01110, map01120, map01130, map01200, map01212, map02020
KEGG modules M00088, M00095, M00373, M00374, M00375
Gene Ontology (73) GO:0003674, GO:0003676, GO:0003723, GO:0003729, GO:0003824, GO:0003988, GO:0005488, GO:0005515, GO:0005575, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737 +61 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 0.115 · strong purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 3 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
Thiolase_NPF00108.30 5.1e-525–260 Thiolase, N-terminal domain
Thiolase_CPF02803.25 9.0e-39269–390 Thiolase, C-terminal domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: fadB2 (3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 981 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv0860 fadB fatty oxidation protein FadB 996 996 coexpression:697 experimental:804 database:942
Rv0468 fadB2 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase 981 981 ctx cooccurence:451 coexpression:426 experimental:412 database:900
Rv1715 fadB3 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase FadB 982 978 ctx cooccurence:409 coexpression:428 experimental:412 database:900
Rv3543c fadE29 acyl-CoA dehydrogenase FadE29 995 944 ctx neighborhood:778 database:500 textmining:919
Rv3542c chsH2 hyp hypothetical protein 964 943 ctx neighborhood:778 coexpression:427 experimental:508
Rv3544c fadE28 acyl-CoA dehydrogenase FadE28 988 942 ctx neighborhood:778 database:500 textmining:815
Rv3667 acs acetyl-CoAsynthetase 950 941 coexpression:415 database:900
Rv1837c glcB malate synthase 927 924 database:900
Rv3710 leuA 2-isopropylmalate synthase 925 923 database:900
Rv1323 fadA4 acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase 923 923 database:900
Rv2503c scoB succinyl-CoA:3-ketoacid-CoA transferase subunit B 927 922 database:900
Rv0243 fadA2 acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase FadA 925 922 database:900
Rv2504c scoA succinyl-CoA:3-ketoacid-CoA transferase subunit A 924 921 database:900
Rv1074c fadA3 beta-ketoacyl CoA thiolase FadA 916 916 database:900
Rv0859 fadA acyltransferase 913 914 database:900

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: acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase FadA
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: steroid 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Thiolase_N PF00108.30 (E=5e-52), Thiolase_C PF02803.25 (E=9e-39)
  • (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_218063.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Thiolase_N (PF00108.30), Thiolase_C (PF02803.25)
  • 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 I6XHI4 (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 — 152 functional partner(s); context anchor fadB2
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003763|Rv3546|fadA5
MGYPVIVEATRSPIGKRNGWLSGLHATELLGAVQKAVVDKAGIQSGLHAGDVEQVIGGCVTQFGEQSNNISRVAWLTAGLPEHVGATTVDCQCGSGQQANHLIAGLIAAGAIDVGIACGIEAMSRVGLGANAGPDRSLIRAQSWDIDLPNQFEAAERIAKRRGITREDVDVFGLESQRRAQRAWAEGRFDREISPIQAPVLDEQNQPTGERRLVFRDQGLRETTMAGLGELKPVLEGGIHTAGTSSQISDGAAAVLWMDEAVARAHGLTPRARIVAQALVGAEPYYHLDGPVQSTAKVLEKAGMKIGDIDIVEINEAFASVVLSWARVHEPDMDRVNVNGGAIALGHPVGCTGSRLITTALHELERTDQSLALITMCAGGALSTGTIIERI