Rv3630 Family assigned · medium

H37Rv Rv3630 · MTBC0 mtbc0_003847 · 431 aa · 4092879–4094174 (+) · RefSeq NP_218147.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)integral membrane protein
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationhypothetical protein
Revised (this work)Membrane lipid flippase / transporter (Lipid-III-flippase-like fold). RefSeq leaves it 'integral membrane protein'. Resolves the earlier MDR-transporter structural ambiguity toward a lipid-flipping membrane transporter.

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WKX9 SwissProt · reviewed · Predicted
UniProt nameUncharacterized protein Rv3630

UniProt still lists this protein as Uncharacterized protein Rv3630; the revised annotation above is ahead of the current UniProt record.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category S Function unknown
eggNOG descriptionpolysaccharide biosynthetic process
Orthologous groupCOG2244
Gene Ontology (2) GO:0005575, GO:0005576

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 1.202 · diversifying/relaxed
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 4 synonymous, 12 missense, 0 nonsense, 1 frameshift
Disruption 1 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.54% of strains (781) · 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)

No Pfam-A domain above the gathering threshold (or not yet scanned).

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

Closest characterised functional partner: Rv3632 (membrane protein), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 937 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3632 membrane protein 987 937 ctx neighborhood:818 cooccurence:664 textmining:806
Rv3631 transferase 982 909 ctx neighborhood:818 cooccurence:472 textmining:813
Rv0322 udgA UDP-glucose 6-dehydrogenase UdgA 804 778 coexpression:733
Rv3809c glf UDP-galactopyranose mutase 772 746 coexpression:731
Rv0334 rmlA glucose-1-phosphate thymidylyltransferase 773 745 coexpression:730
Rv3465 rmlC dTDP-4-dehydrorhamnose 3,5-epimerase 774 744 coexpression:729
Rv3779 transmembrane protein 734 735 ctx cooccurence:718
Rv0290 eccD3 ESX-3 secretion system protein EccD 713 714 ctx cooccurence:710
Rv3629c integral membrane protein 960 708 ctx neighborhood:704 textmining:870
Rv3810 pirG cell surface protein 684 684 ctx cooccurence:671
Rv3784 dTDP-glucose 4,6-dehydratase 707 680 coexpression:669
Rv3464 rmlB dTDP-glucose 4,6-dehydratase 707 680 coexpression:669
Rv3707c hyp hypothetical protein 620 621 ctx cooccurence:617
Rv0518 hyp hypothetical protein 625 608 ctx cooccurence:590
Rv0273c transcriptional regulator 598 598 ctx cooccurence:598

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

  • Foldseek vs AFDB-SwissProt: Lipid III flippase, TM 0.78, E 1e-8
  • Structural homology vs AlphaFold-Swiss-Prot (Foldseek; 542k curated SwissProt structures), project 'Still unknown gene function' phase13, 2026-06-10. Fold/family-level, not a demonstrated function.

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_218147.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — none above threshold
  • 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 COG2244
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WKX9 (SwissProt, reviewed; Predicted)
  • 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 — 69 functional partner(s); context anchor Rv3632
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003847|Rv3630|
MAVGAAAVTEVGDTASPVGSSGASGGAIASGSVARVGTATAVTALCGYAVIYLAARNLAPNGFSVFGVFWGAFGLVTGAANGLLQETTREVRSLGYLDVSADGRRTHPLRVSGMVGLGSLVVIAGSSPLWSGRVFAEARWLSVALLSIGLAGFCLHATLLGMLAGTNRWTQYGALMVADAVIRVVVAAATFVIGWQLVGFIWATVAGSVAWLIMLMTSPPTRAAARLMTPGATATFLRGAAHSIIAAGASAILVMGFPVLLKLTSNELGAQGGVVILAVTLTRAPLLVPLTAMQGNLIAHFVDERTERIRALIAPAALIGGVGAVGMLAAGVVGPWIMRVAFGSEYQSSSALLAWLTAAAVAIAMLTLTGAAAVAAALHRAYSLGWVGATVGSGLLLLLPLSLETRTVVALLCGPLVGIGVHLVALARTDE