mesJ Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3625c · MTBC0 mtbc0_003842 · 323 aa · 4087605–4088576 (-) · RefSeq NP_218142.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)tRNA(Ile)-lysidine synthase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationtRNA lysidine(34) synthetase TilS
Revised (this work)TRNA lysidine(34) synthetase TilS. Pfam: ATP_bind_3 (PF01171.27), TilS (PF09179.17).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WG53 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nametRNA(Ile)-lysidine synthase
EC (curated) EC 6.3.4.19
Curated functionLigates lysine onto the cytidine present at position 34 of the AUA codon-specific tRNA(Ile) that contains the anticodon CAU, in an ATP-dependent manner. Cytidine is converted to lysidine, thus changing the amino acid specificity of the tRNA from methionine to isoleucine.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category J Translation, ribosomal structure and biogenesis
Preferred nametilS
eggNOG descriptionLigates lysine onto the cytidine present at position 34 of the AUA codon-specific tRNA(Ile) that contains the anticodon CAU, in an ATP-dependent manner. Cytidine is converted to lysidine, thus changing the amino acid specificity of the tRNA from methionine to isoleucine
Orthologous groupCOG0037
EC number EC 2.4.2.8, EC 6.3.4.19
KEGG orthology K00760, K04075
KEGG pathways map00230, map00983, map01100, map01110
Gene Ontology (2) GO:0008150, GO:0040007

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 2.387 · diversifying/relaxed
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 1 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)

PfamAccessioni-EvalueResiduesDescription
ATP_bind_3PF01171.27 5.3e-2828–193 PP-loop domain
TilSPF09179.17 2.7e-10246–300 TilS substrate binding domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: hpt (hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 987 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3624c hpt hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase 998 987 ctx neighborhood:881 fusion:855 textmining:888
Rv3627c dacB hyp hypothetical protein 981 906 ctx neighborhood:881 textmining:808
Rv3626c hyp hypothetical protein 984 888 ctx neighborhood:881 textmining:870
Rv0416 thiS sulfur carrier protein ThiS 821 813 experimental:790
Rv3628 ppa inorganic pyrophosphatase 784 774 ctx neighborhood:774
Rv1014c pth peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase 692 673 coexpression:646
Rv1020 mfd transcription-repair coupling factor 690 673 coexpression:588
Rv3455c truA tRNA pseudouridine synthase A 649 536 coexpression:414
Rv1165 typA GTP-binding translation elongation factor 472 472 coexpression:455
Rv2156c murX phospho-N-acetylmuramoyl-pentappeptidetransferase 462 463
Rv1409 ribG bifunctional riboflavin biosynthesis diaminohydroxyphosphoribosylaminopyrimidine deaminase/5-amino-6-(5-phosphoribosylamino) uracil reductas 470 457
Rv2118c trmI tRNA (adenine(58)-N(1))-methyltransferase 527 456 coexpression:418
Rv2793c truB tRNA pseudouridine synthase B 581 451
Rv1510 hyp hypothetical protein 470 450 coexpression:413
Rv3737 transmembrane protein 449 450

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: tRNA(Ile)-lysidine synthase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: tRNA lysidine(34) synthetase TilS
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): ATP_bind_3 PF01171.27 (E=5e-28), TilS PF09179.17 (E=3e-10)
  • (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_218142.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — ATP_bind_3 (PF01171.27), TilS (PF09179.17)
  • 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 COG0037
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WG53 (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 — 54 functional partner(s); context anchor hpt
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003842|Rv3625c|mesJ
MDRQSAVAQLRAAAEQFARVHLDACDRWSVGLSGGPDSLALTAVAARLWPTTALIVDHGLQPGSATVAETARIQAISLGCVDARVLCVQVGAAGGREAAARSARYSALEEHRDGPVLLAHTLDDQAETVLLGLGRGSGARSIAGMRPYDPPWCRPLLGVRRSVTHAACRELGLTAWQDPHNTDRRFTRTRLRTEVLPLLEDVLGGGVAEALARTATALREDTDLIDTIAAQALPGAAVAGSRGQELSTSALTALPDAVRRRVIRGWLLAGGATGLTDRQIRGVDRLVTAWRGQGGVAVGSTLRGQRLVAGRRDGVLVLRREPV