Rv3691 Still unknown · low auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3691 · MTBC0 - · 333 aa · 4132518–4133519 (+) · RefSeq NP_218208.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)hypothetical protein
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Conserved hypothetical protein; DUF domain(s) DUF4350. Function unknown. Foldseek best (non-significant) hit: 8hx9-assembly1_B Crystal structure of 4-amino-4-deoxychorismate syntha (prob 0.77, TM 0.44).

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

Annotated on the H37Rv protein: this gene has no 1:1 ancestral MTBC0 anchor (PE/PPE, paralogue, IS element, or otherwise unanchored CDS).

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt O69659 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameUncharacterized membrane protein Rv3691

UniProt still lists this protein as Uncharacterized membrane protein Rv3691; the revised annotation above is ahead of the current UniProt record.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

Orthologous group29B69
Gene Ontology (6) GO:0005575, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0016020, GO:0044464, GO:0071944

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 0.627 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 3 synonymous, 5 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
DUF4350PF14258.13 6.4e-293–170 Domain of unknown function (DUF4350)

Structural neighbours (Foldseek on the ESMFold model, exploratory)

ESMFold model confidence: mean pLDDT 93.7 (very high). A confident model makes the fold comparison meaningful.

Best matches against the PDB, ranked by Foldseek homology probability. A high probability / TM-score suggests a shared fold; unless flagged sig (E < 0.01) these are fold hypotheses, not assignments.

TargetProbTME-valueDescription
8hx9-assembly1_B 0.77 0.44 3.4e-02 8hx9-assembly1_B Crystal structure of 4-amino-4-deoxychorismate synthase from Streptomyces venezuelae with chorismate
3kxa-assembly2_D 0.33 0.23 9.2e-02 3kxa-assembly2_D Crystal Structure of NGO0477 from Neisseria gonorrhoeae
4pon-assembly1_B 0.04 0.48 8.4e+00 4pon-assembly1_B The crystal structure of a putative SAM-dependent methyltransferase, YtqB, from Bacillus subtilis
4poo-assembly1_A 0.04 0.39 4.7e+00 4poo-assembly1_A The crystal structure of Bacillus subtilis YtqB in complex with SAM
1cnt-assembly1_1 0.02 0.27 7.0e+00 1cnt-assembly1_1 CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR
2vou-assembly1_A 0.02 0.15 3.9e-01 2vou-assembly1_A Structure of 2,6-dihydroxypyridine-3-hydroxylase from Arthrobacter nicotinovorans
3eey-assembly4_I 0.02 0.39 9.4e+00 3eey-assembly4_I CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF PUTATIVE RRNA-METHYLASE FROM Clostridium thermocellum
4eit-assembly2_E-2 0.02 0.33 7.5e+00 4eit-assembly2_E-2 Crystal structure of an enoyl-(acyl carrier protein) reductase from Bartonella henselae

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

Closest characterised functional partner: Rv3690 (membrane protein), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 986 excluding text-mining). This association is the citable seed of a function hypothesis for this hypothetical protein.

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3690 membrane protein 986 986 ctx neighborhood:760 cooccurence:774 coexpression:767
Rv3693 membrane protein 978 977 ctx neighborhood:756 cooccurence:774 coexpression:621
Rv3689 transmembrane protein 938 938 ctx neighborhood:737 cooccurence:765
Rv3692 moxR2 methanol dehydrogenase transcriptional regulator MoxR 910 910 ctx neighborhood:881
Rv3694c transmembrane protein 791 792 ctx cooccurence:774
Rv3695 membrane protein 786 787 ctx cooccurence:774
Rv3688c hyp hypothetical protein 693 693 ctx neighborhood:690
Rv2226 hyp hypothetical protein 453 432 ctx cooccurence:401
Rv2332 mez malate oxidoreductase 466 427 coexpression:417
Rv2531c amino acid decarboxylase 447 423 experimental:405
Rv0518 hyp hypothetical protein 402 403
Rv0886 fprB ferredoxin/ferredoxin--NADP reductase 602 165 textmining:543
Rv0255c cobQ1 cobyric acid synthase 667 66 textmining:659
Rv2057c rpmG1 50S ribosomal protein L33 553 48 textmining:550
Rv2943 insertion sequence element IS1533 transposase 768 47 textmining:767

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

  • Annotation from H37Rv (no MTBC0 1:1 anchor; H37Rv protein used): hypothetical protein
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): DUF4350 PF14258.13 (E=6e-29)
  • Foldseek best: 8hx9-assembly1_B Crystal structure of 4-amino-4-deoxychorismate synthase from St (prob 0.77, E=3e-02, TM=0.44)
  • (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_218208.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — DUF4350 (PF14258.13)
  • 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 29B69
  • Curated reference: UniProt O69659 (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)
  • Model confidence: ESMFold per-residue pLDDT (mean 93.7, very high)
  • Interaction network: STRING v12.0 (Szklarczyk et al. 2023, doi:10.1093/nar/gkac1000), taxon 83332, CC-BY 4.0 — 18 functional partner(s); context anchor Rv3690
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv3691|
MAPASTSSTGGHALATLLGNHGVEVVVADSIADVEAAARPDSLLLVAQTQYLVDNALLDRLAKAPGDLLLVAPTSRTRTALTPQLRIAAASPFNSQPNCTLREANRAGSVQWGPSDTYQATGDLVLTSCYGGALVRFRAEGRTITVVGSSNFMTNGGLLPAGNAALAMNLAGNRPRLVWYAPDHIEGEMSSPSSLSDLIPENVHWTIWQLWLVVLLVALWKGRRIGPLVAEELPVVIRASETVEGRGRLYRSRRARDRAADALRTATLQRLRPRLGVGAGAPAPAVVTTIAQRSKADPPFVAYHLFGPAPATDNDLLQLARALDDIERQVTHS