rlmB Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3579c · MTBC0 mtbc0_003798 · 322 aa · 4045102–4046070 (-) · RefSeq NP_218096.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)23S rRNA (guanosine(2251)-2'-O)-methyltransferase RlmB
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation23S rRNA (guanosine(2251)-2'-O)-methyltransferase RlmB
Revised (this work)23S rRNA (guanosine(2251)-2'-O)-methyltransferase RlmB. Pfam: SpoU_sub_bind (PF08032.18), SpoU_methylase (PF00588.25).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WFY5 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameUncharacterized tRNA/rRNA methyltransferase Rv3579c
EC (curated) EC 2.1.1.-

UniProt still lists this protein as Uncharacterized tRNA/rRNA methyltransferase Rv3579c; the revised annotation above is ahead of the current UniProt record.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category J Translation, ribosomal structure and biogenesis
Preferred namerlmB
eggNOG descriptionBelongs to the class IV-like SAM-binding methyltransferase superfamily. RNA methyltransferase TrmH family
Orthologous groupCOG0566
EC number EC 2.1.1.185
KEGG orthology K03218
Gene Ontology (57) GO:0000154, GO:0000451, GO:0000453, GO:0001510, GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0005575, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0005829, GO:0006139 +45 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 0.335 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 7 synonymous, 5 missense, 1 nonsense, 0 frameshift
Disruption 1 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.13% of strains (183) · clonal

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
SpoU_sub_bindPF08032.18 8.3e-1570–144 RNA 2'-O ribose methyltransferase substrate binding
SpoU_methylasePF00588.25 5.7e-38161–300 SpoU rRNA Methylase family

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

Closest characterised functional partner: cysS1 (cysteine--tRNA ligase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 939 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3580c cysS1 cysteine--tRNA ligase 947 939 ctx neighborhood:882 coexpression:443
Rv0640 rplK 50S ribosomal protein L11 829 829 ctx fusion:435 experimental:696
Rv3581c ispF 2C-methyl-D-erythritol 2,4-cyclodiphosphate synthase 808 802 ctx neighborhood:799
Rv3582c ispD 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 4-phosphate cytidylyltransferase 800 800 ctx neighborhood:799
Rv1650 pheT phenylalanine--tRNA ligase subunit beta 809 792 ctx neighborhood:456 cooccurence:420
Rv3583c carD RNA polymerase-binding transcription factor CarD 789 790 ctx neighborhood:788
Rv2420c rsfS hyp hypothetical protein 783 773 experimental:763
Rv3456c rplQ 50S ribosomal protein L17 768 764 experimental:739
Rv2442c rplU 50S ribosomal protein L21 750 751 experimental:739
Rv0723 rplO 50S ribosomal protein L15 747 747 experimental:732
Rv0701 rplC 50S ribosomal protein L3 735 722 experimental:664
Rv3443c rplM 50S ribosomal protein L13 718 705 experimental:687
Rv0715 rplX 50S ribosomal protein L24 703 704 experimental:676
Rv1540 RNA pseudouridine synthase 666 649 experimental:466
Rv2364c era GTPase Era 642 629 ctx cooccurence:567

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: 23S rRNA (guanosine(2251)-2'-O)-methyltransferase RlmB
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: 23S rRNA (guanosine(2251)-2'-O)-methyltransferase RlmB
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): SpoU_sub_bind PF08032.18 (E=8e-15), SpoU_methylase PF00588.25 (E=6e-38)
  • (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_218096.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — SpoU_sub_bind (PF08032.18), SpoU_methylase (PF00588.25)
  • 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 COG0566
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WFY5 (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 — 86 functional partner(s); context anchor cysS1
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003798|Rv3579c|rlmB
MPGNSRRRGAVRKSGTKKGAGVGSGGQRRRGLEGRGPTPPAHLRPHHPAAKRARAQPRRPVKRADETETVLGRNPVLECLRAGVPATALYVALGTEADERLTECVARAADSGIAIVELLRADLDRMTANHLHQGIALQVPPYNYAHPDDLLAAALDQPPALLVALDNLSDPRNLGAIVRSVAAFGGHGVLIPQRRSASVTAVAWRTSAGAAARIPVARATNLTRTLKGWADRGVRVIGLDAGGGTALDDVDGTDSLVVVVGSEGKGLSRLVRQNCDEVVSIPMAAQAESLNASVAAGVVLAEIARQRRRPREPREQTQNRMI