Rv3778c Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3778c · MTBC0 mtbc0_004006 · 398 aa · 4247820–4249016 (-) · RefSeq NP_218295.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)aminotransferase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationcysteine desulfurase-like protein
Revised (this work)Cysteine desulfurase-like protein. Pfam: Aminotran_5 (PF00266.26).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WQ67 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameUncharacterized protein Rv3778c
Curated functionIs essential for optimal growth.

UniProt still lists this protein as Uncharacterized protein Rv3778c; the revised annotation above is ahead of the current UniProt record.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category E Amino acid transport and metabolism
Preferred namecsd
eggNOG descriptioncysteine desulfurase family protein
Orthologous groupCOG0520
EC number EC 2.8.1.7
KEGG orthology K04487
KEGG pathways map00730, map01100, map04122
Gene Ontology (10) GO:0005575, GO:0005618, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0008150, GO:0016020, GO:0030312, GO:0040007, 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 0.499 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 3 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
Aminotran_5PF00266.26 1.4e-3621–390 Aminotransferase class-V

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

Closest characterised functional partner: Rv1465 (nitrogen fixation related protein), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 969 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1465 nitrogen fixation related protein 972 969 ctx cooccurence:544 coexpression:692 experimental:785
Rv1463 sufC ABC transporter ATP-binding protein 913 905 ctx cooccurence:679 coexpression:694
Rv1462 sufD hyp hypothetical protein 893 887 ctx cooccurence:622 coexpression:648
Rv1461 sufB hyp hypothetical protein 888 881 ctx cooccurence:618 coexpression:647
Rv0888 spmT hyp hypothetical protein 783 783 experimental:780
Rv3783 rfbD O-antigen/lipopolysaccharide ABC transporter permease RfbD 701 701 ctx neighborhood:636
Rv3284 hyp hypothetical protein 701 670 experimental:490
Rv3780 bpa hyp hypothetical protein 639 639 ctx neighborhood:636
Rv3782 glfT1 galactofuranosyl transferase GlfT 638 638 ctx neighborhood:636
Rv3781 rfbE O-antigen/lipopolysaccharide ABC transporter ATP-binding protein RfbE 637 637 ctx neighborhood:636
Rv3779 transmembrane protein 615 615 ctx neighborhood:615
Rv2360c hyp hypothetical protein 516 516 ctx cooccurence:516
Rv2520c membrane protein 468 469 ctx cooccurence:467
Rv2468c hyp hypothetical protein 451 452
Rv0020c fhaA FHA domain-containing protein FhaA 401 401

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: aminotransferase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: cysteine desulfurase-like protein
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Aminotran_5 PF00266.26 (E=1e-36)
  • (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_218295.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Aminotran_5 (PF00266.26)
  • 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 COG0520
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WQ67 (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 — 22 functional partner(s); context anchor Rv1465
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_004006|Rv3778c|
MAYDVARVRGLHPSLGDGWVHFDAPAGMLIPDSVATTVSTAFRRSGASTVGAHPSARRSAAVLDAAREAVADLVNADPGGVVLGADRAVLLSLLAEASSSRAGLGYEVIVSRLDDEANIAPWLRAAHRYGAKVKWAEVDIETGELPTWQWESLISKSTRLVAVNSASGTLGGVTDLRAMTKLVHDVGALVVVDHSAAAPYRLLDIRETDADVVTVNAHAWGGPPIGAMVFRDPSVMNSFGSVSTNPYATGPARLEIGVHQFGLLAGVVASIEYLAALDESARGSRRERLAVSMQSADAYLNRVFDYLMVSLRSLPLVMLIGRPEAQIPVVSFAVHKVPADRVVQRLADNGILAIANTGSRVLDVLGVNDVGGAVTVGLAHYSTMAEVDQLVRALASLG