glf Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3809c · MTBC0 mtbc0_004037 · 399 aa · 4296386–4297585 (-) · RefSeq NP_218326.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)UDP-galactopyranose mutase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationUDP-galactopyranose mutase
Revised (this work)UDP-galactopyranose mutase. Pfam: NAD_binding_8 (PF13450.13), Amino_oxidase (PF01593.31), GLF (PF03275.20).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WIQ1 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameUDP-galactopyranose mutase
EC (curated) EC 5.4.99.9
Curated functionCatalyzes the interconversion through a 2-keto intermediate of uridine diphosphogalactopyranose (UDP-GalP) into uridine diphosphogalactofuranose (UDP-GalF) which is a key building block for cell wall construction in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category M Cell wall / membrane / envelope biogenesis
Preferred nameglf
eggNOG descriptionUDP-galactopyranose mutase
Orthologous groupCOG0562
EC number EC 5.4.99.9
KEGG orthology K01854
KEGG pathways map00052, map00520
Gene Ontology (21) GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0005575, GO:0005618, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0008150, GO:0008767, GO:0009273, GO:0009987, GO:0016020, GO:0016853 +9 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 0.0 · strong purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 6 synonymous, 0 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
NAD_binding_8PF13450.13 3.3e-2012–81 NAD(P)-binding Rossmann-like domain
Amino_oxidasePF01593.31 3.6e-0619–95 Flavin containing amine oxidoreductase
GLFPF03275.20 7.2e-82156–366 UDP-galactopyranose mutase

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

Closest characterised functional partner: glfT2 (galactofuranosyl transferase GlfT), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 976 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3808c glfT2 galactofuranosyl transferase GlfT 991 976 ctx neighborhood:881 cooccurence:762 textmining:676
Rv0501 galE2 UDP-glucose 4-epimerase GalE 969 928 database:900 textmining:589
Rv3634c galE1 UDP-glucose 4-epimerase 969 927 database:900 textmining:600
Rv3468c dTDP-glucose 4,6-dehydratase 969 926 database:900 textmining:598
Rv0618 galTa Rv0618, (MTCY19H5.03c), len: 231 aa (probable partial CDS). Probable galTa, first part of galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase, highly 909 904 database:900
Rv3782 glfT1 galactofuranosyl transferase GlfT 962 901 ctx cooccurence:744 database:500 textmining:637
Rv0334 rmlA glucose-1-phosphate thymidylyltransferase 910 870 coexpression:859
Rv0322 udgA UDP-glucose 6-dehydrogenase UdgA 876 869 coexpression:858
Rv1510 hyp hypothetical protein 882 868 coexpression:857
Rv3465 rmlC dTDP-4-dehydrorhamnose 3,5-epimerase 911 864 coexpression:853
Rv3806c ubiA decaprenyl-phosphate phosphoribosyltransferase 880 847 ctx neighborhood:843
Rv3807c decaprenylphosphoryl-5-phosphoribose phosphatase 878 845 ctx neighborhood:843
Rv3805c aftB terminal beta-(1->2)-arabinofuranosyltransferase 763 763 ctx neighborhood:756
Rv3783 rfbD O-antigen/lipopolysaccharide ABC transporter permease RfbD 885 762 coexpression:667 textmining:539
Rv3630 integral membrane protein 772 746 coexpression:731

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: UDP-galactopyranose mutase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: UDP-galactopyranose mutase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): NAD_binding_8 PF13450.13 (E=3e-20), Amino_oxidase PF01593.31 (E=4e-06), GLF PF03275.20 (E=7e-82)
  • (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_218326.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — NAD_binding_8 (PF13450.13), Amino_oxidase (PF01593.31), GLF (PF03275.20)
  • 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 COG0562
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WIQ1 (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 — 40 functional partner(s); context anchor glfT2
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_004037|Rv3809c|glf
MQPMTARFDLFVVGSGFFGLTIAERVATQLDKRVLVLERRPHIGGNAYSEAEPQTGIEVHKYGAHLFHTSNKRVWDYVRQFTDFTDYRHRVFAMHNGQAYQFPMGLGLVSQFFGKYFTPEQARQLIAEQAAEIDTADAQNLEEKAISLIGRPLYEAFVKGYTAKQWQTDPKELPAANITRLPVRYTFDNRYFSDTYEGLPTDGYTAWLQNMAADHRIEVRLNTDWFDVRGQLRPGSPAAPVVYTGPLDRYFDYAEGRLGWRTLDFEVEVLPIGDFQGTAVMNYNDLDVPYTRIHEFRHFHPERDYPTDKTVIMREYSRFAEDDDEPYYPINTEADRALLATYRARAKSETASSKVLFGGRLGTYQYLDMHMAIASALNMYDNVLAPHLRDGVPLLQDGA