dacB Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3627c · MTBC0 mtbc0_003844 · 461 aa · 4089604–4090989 (-) · RefSeq NP_218144.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)hypothetical protein
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationD-alanyl-D-alanine carboxypeptidase/D-alanyl-D-alanine-endopeptidase
Revised (this work)D-alanyl-D-alanine carboxypeptidase/D-alanyl-D-alanine-endopeptidase. Pfam: Rv3627c_N (PF23714.2), Peptidase_S13 (PF02113.21).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt O06380 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameCarboxypeptidase Rv3627c
EC (curated) EC 3.4.16.-
Curated functionCarboxypeptidase that cleaves terminal D-alanine from peptidoglycan in the mycobacterial cell wall. May cleave L-Lys-D-Ala and/or D-Ala-D-Ala peptide bonds. Exerts important effects on mycobacterial cell morphology and cell division.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category M Cell wall / membrane / envelope biogenesis
Preferred namedacB
eggNOG descriptionD-alanyl-D-alanine carboxypeptidase
Orthologous groupCOG2027
EC number EC 3.4.16.4
KEGG orthology K07259
KEGG pathways map00550

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 0.308 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 5 synonymous, 4 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
Rv3627c_NPF23714.2 4.5e-201–59 Carboxypeptidase Rv3627c-like, N-terminal domain
Peptidase_S13PF02113.21 1.2e-75238–453 D-Ala-D-Ala carboxypeptidase 3 (S13) family

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

Closest characterised functional partner: mesJ (tRNA(Ile)-lysidine synthase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 906 excluding text-mining). This association is the citable seed of a function hypothesis for this hypothetical protein.

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3626c hyp hypothetical protein 991 922 ctx neighborhood:882 textmining:896
Rv3625c mesJ tRNA(Ile)-lysidine synthase 981 906 ctx neighborhood:881 textmining:808
Rv3330 dacB1 penicillin-binding protein DacB 995 900 database:900 textmining:954
Rv2911 dacB2 penicillin-binding protein DacB2 991 900 database:900 textmining:920
Rv3624c hpt hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase 969 882 ctx neighborhood:881 textmining:754
Rv3628 ppa inorganic pyrophosphatase 774 775 ctx neighborhood:774
Rv0200 transmembrane protein 433 426 experimental:404
Rv0178 Mce associated membrane protein 432 425 experimental:404
Rv0199 membrane protein 432 425 experimental:404
Rv1972 Mce associated membrane protein 432 425 experimental:404
Rv1973 Mce associated membrane protein 431 424 experimental:404
Rv1363c membrane protein 431 424 experimental:404
Rv0177 Mce associated protein 429 422 experimental:404
Rv3492c Mce associated protein 429 422 experimental:404
Rv2390c hyp hypothetical protein 429 422 experimental:404

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: hypothetical protein
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: D-alanyl-D-alanine carboxypeptidase/D-alanyl-D-alanine-endopeptidase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Rv3627c_N PF23714.2 (E=5e-20), Peptidase_S13 PF02113.21 (E=1e-75)
  • (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_218144.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Rv3627c_N (PF23714.2), Peptidase_S13 (PF02113.21)
  • 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 COG2027
  • Curated reference: UniProt O06380 (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 — 33 functional partner(s); context anchor mesJ
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003844|Rv3627c|dacB
MGPTRWRKSTHVVVGAAVLAFVAVVVAAAALVTTGGHRAGVRAPVPPPRPPTVKAGVVPVADTAATPSAAGVTAALAVVAADPDLGKLAGRITDALTGQELWQRLDDVPLVPASTNKILTAAAALLTLDRQARISTRVVAGGQNPQGPVVLVGAGDPTLSAAPPGQDTWYHGAARIGDLVEQIRRSGVTPTAVQVDASAFSGPTMAPGWDPADIDNGDIAPIEAAMIDAGRIQPTTVNSRRSRTPALDAGRELAKALGLDPAAVTIASAPAGARQLAVVQSAPLIQRLSQMMNASDNVMAECIGREVAVAINRPQSFSGAVDAVTSRLNTAHIDTAGAALVDSSGLSLDNRLTARTLDATMQAAAGPDQPALRPLLDLLPIAGGSGTLGERFLDAATDQGPAGWLRAKTGSLTAINSLVGVLTDRSGRVLTFAFISNEAGPNGRNAMDALATKLWFCGCTT