marP Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3671c · MTBC0 mtbc0_003890 · 397 aa · 4136152–4137345 (-) · RefSeq NP_218188.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)serine protease
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationacid resistance serine protease MarP
Revised (this work)Acid resistance serine protease MarP. Pfam: Colicin_V (PF02674.23), Trypsin_2 (PF13365.13), Trypsin (PF00089.33).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WHR9 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameSerine protease Rv3671c
EC (curated) EC 3.4.21.-
Curated functionRequired for M.tuberculosis resistance to oxidative stress in addition to its role in resistance to acid, which is essential for virulence. It protects M.tuberculosis against phagolysosomal concentrations of acid and maintains its intrabacterial pH when phagocytosed by IFN-gamma-activated macrophages.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category O Post-translational modification, protein turnover, chaperones
Preferred namecvpA
eggNOG descriptionColicin V production protein
Orthologous groupCOG0265
Gene Ontology (23) GO:0005575, GO:0005576, GO:0005618, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0005887, GO:0008150, GO:0009268, GO:0009405, GO:0009628, GO:0010447, GO:0016020 +11 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 0.673 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 4 synonymous, 7 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
Colicin_VPF02674.23 1.3e-137–149 Colicin V production protein
Trypsin_2PF13365.13 2.9e-27220–357 Trypsin-like peptidase domain
TrypsinPF00089.33 4.0e-12221–363 Trypsin

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

Closest characterised functional partner: nth (endonuclease III), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 793 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3672c hyp hypothetical protein 930 929 ctx neighborhood:816 database:530
Rv2115c mpa proteasome-associated ATPase 824 813 experimental:551 database:594
Rv3674c nth endonuclease III 797 793 ctx neighborhood:758
Rv0175 Mce associated membrane protein 783 783 coexpression:783
Rv3696c glpK glycerol kinase 767 753 experimental:402 database:589
Rv1334 mec [CysO 708 698 database:576
Rv3675 membrane protein 742 697 ctx neighborhood:697
Rv3673c membrane-anchored thioredoxin-like protein 717 668 ctx neighborhood:614
Rv3676 crp cAMP receptor protein 691 665 ctx neighborhood:655
Rv2109c prcA proteasome subunit alpha 639 622 database:562
Rv0415 thiO thiamine biosynthesis oxidoreductase ThiO 627 622 database:549
Rv1905c aao D-amino acid oxidase 626 621 database:549
Rv2110c prcB proteasome subunit beta 700 620 database:562
Rv1872c lldD2 L-lactate dehydrogenase 615 615 database:556
Rv2555c alaS alanine--tRNA ligase 626 614 database:586

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: serine protease
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: acid resistance serine protease MarP
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Colicin_V PF02674.23 (E=1e-13), Trypsin_2 PF13365.13 (E=3e-27), Trypsin PF00089.33 (E=4e-12)
  • (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_218188.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Colicin_V (PF02674.23), Trypsin_2 (PF13365.13), Trypsin (PF00089.33)
  • 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 COG0265
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WHR9 (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 — 234 functional partner(s); context anchor nth
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003890|Rv3671c|marP
MTPSQWLDIAVLAVAFIAAISGWRAGALGSMLSFGGVLLGATAGVLLAPHIVSQISAPRAKLFAALFLILALVVVGEVAGVVLGRAVRGAIRNRPIRLIDSVIGVGVQLVVVLTAAWLLAMPLTQSKEQPELAAAVKGSRVLARVNEAAPTWLKTVPKRLSALLNTSGLPAVLEPFSRTPVIPVASPDPALVNNPVVAATEPSVVKIRSLAPRCQKVLEGTGFVISPDRVMTNAHVVAGSNNVTVYAGDKPFEATVVSYDPSVDVAILAVPHLPPPPLVFAAEPAKTGADVVVLGYPGGGNFTATPARIREAIRLSGPDIYGDPEPVTRDVYTIRADVEQGDSGGPLIDLNGQVLGVVFGAAVDDAETGFVLTAGEVAGQLAKIGATQPVGTGACVS