dnaZX Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3721c · MTBC0 mtbc0_003944 · 578 aa · 4189116–4190852 (-) · RefSeq NP_218238.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)DNA polymerase III subunit gamma/tau
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationDNA polymerase III subunits gamma/tau
Revised (this work)DNA polymerase III subunits gamma/tau. Pfam: DNA_pol3_delta2 (PF13177.13), AAA (PF00004.36), AAA_22 (PF13401.13), DNAX_ATPase_lid (PF22608.3), DNA_pol3_gamma3 (PF12169.14).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WNT9 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameDNA polymerase III subunit gamma/tau
EC (curated) EC 2.7.7.7
Curated functionDNA polymerase III is a complex, multichain enzyme responsible for most of the replicative synthesis in bacteria. This DNA polymerase also exhibits 3' to 5' exonuclease activity.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category L Replication, recombination and repair
Preferred namednaX
eggNOG descriptionDNA polymerase III is a complex, multichain enzyme responsible for most of the replicative synthesis in bacteria. This DNA polymerase also exhibits 3' to 5' exonuclease activity
Orthologous groupCOG2812
EC number EC 2.7.7.7
KEGG orthology K02343
KEGG pathways map00230, map00240, map01100, map03030, map03430, map03440
KEGG modules M00260
Gene Ontology (24) GO:0006139, GO:0006259, GO:0006260, GO:0006261, GO:0006725, GO:0006807, GO:0008150, GO:0008152, GO:0009058, GO:0009059, GO:0009987, GO:0034641 +12 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 0.304 · 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
DNA_pol3_delta2PF13177.13 7.4e-3818–175 DNA polymerase III, delta subunit
AAAPF00004.36 1.2e-0939–169 ATPase family associated with various cellular activities (AAA)
AAA_22PF13401.13 2.7e-0639–154 AAA domain
DNAX_ATPase_lidPF22608.3 3.8e-06185–225 DNA polymerase III clamp loader subunit, ATPase lid domain
DNA_pol3_gamma3PF12169.14 1.7e-13235–362 DNA polymerase III subunits gamma and tau domain III

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

Closest characterised functional partner: adnA (ATP-dependent DNA helicase), medium confidence from genomic context alone (score 645 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv2413c hyp hypothetical protein 987 986 experimental:829 database:900
Rv1547 dnaE1 DNA polymerase III subunit alpha 983 982 experimental:773 database:900
Rv0002 dnaN DNA polymerase III subunit beta 997 980 experimental:773 database:900 textmining:881
Rv2191 hyp hypothetical protein 963 949 experimental:474 database:900
Rv3711c dnaQ DNA polymerase III subunit epsilon 971 947 experimental:474 database:900 textmining:494
Rv3644c DNA polymerase 924 925 database:900
Rv3370c dnaE2 error-prone DNA polymerase 804 786 experimental:773
Rv2116 lppK lipoprotein LppK 799 781 experimental:773
Rv2478c hyp hypothetical protein 809 780 experimental:773
Rv0054 ssb single-strand DNA-binding protein 809 780 experimental:773
Rv3722c hyp hypothetical protein 780 780 ctx neighborhood:779
Rv3202c adnA ATP-dependent DNA helicase 675 645 ctx cooccurence:620
Rv3715c recR recombination protein RecR 652 605 coexpression:435
Rv0058 dnaB replicative DNA helicase 693 573 experimental:455
Rv3716c hyp hypothetical protein 575 535 coexpression:422

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: DNA polymerase III subunit gamma/tau
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: DNA polymerase III subunits gamma/tau
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): DNA_pol3_delta2 PF13177.13 (E=7e-38), AAA PF00004.36 (E=1e-09), AAA_22 PF13401.13 (E=3e-06), DNAX_ATPase_lid PF22608.3 (E=4e-06), DNA_pol3_gamma3 PF12169.14 (E=2e-13)
  • (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_218238.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — DNA_pol3_delta2 (PF13177.13), AAA (PF00004.36), AAA_22 (PF13401.13), DNAX_ATPase_lid (PF22608.3), DNA_pol3_gamma3 (PF12169.14)
  • 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 COG2812
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WNT9 (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 — 39 functional partner(s); context anchor adnA
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_003944|Rv3721c|dnaZX
MALYRKYRPASFAEVVGQEHVTAPLSVALDAGRINHAYLFSGPRGCGKTSSARILARSLNCAQGPTANPCGVCESCVSLAPNAPGSIDVVELDAASHGGVDDTRELRDRAFYAPVQSRYRVFIVDEAHMVTTAGFNALLKIVEEPPEHLIFIFATTEPEKVLPTIRSRTHHYPFRLLPPRTMRALLARICEQEGVVVDDAVYPLVIRAGGGSPRDTLSVLDQLLAGAADTHVTYTRALGLLGVTDVALIDDAVDALAACDAAALFGAIESVIDGGHDPRRFATDLLERFRDLIVLQSVPDAASRGVVDAPEDALDRMREQAARIGRATLTRYAEVVQAGLGEMRGATAPRLLLEVVCARLLLPSASDAESALLQRVERIETRLDMSIPAPQAVPRPSAAAAEPKHQPAREPRPVLAPTPASSEPTVAAVRSMWPTVRDKVRLRSRTTEVMLAGATVRALEDNTLVLTHESAPLARRLSEQRNADVLAEALKDALGVNWRVRCETGEPAAAASPVGGGANVATAKAVNPAPTANSTQRDEEEHMLAEAGRGDPSPRRDPEEVALELLQNELGARRIDNA