papA1 Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3824c · MTBC0 mtbc0_004053 · 511 aa · 4315749–4317284 (-) · RefSeq NP_218341.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)acyltransferase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationacyltransferase PapA1
Revised (this work)Acyltransferase PapA1. Pfam: Condensation (PF00668.26).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WIK9 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt name2'-acyl-2-O-sulfo-trehalose
EC (curated) EC 2.3.1.283
Curated functionRequired for the biosynthesis of sulfolipid-1 (SL-1), a major mycobacterial cell wall lipid. Catalyzes the acylation of trehalose-2-sulfate-2'-palmitate (SL659) by adding the (hydroxy)phthioceranoyl group at the 3'-position to yield the diacylated intermediate 2-palmitoyl-3-(C43)-phthioceranyl-alpha, alpha'-D-trehalose-2'-sulfate (SL1278).

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category Q Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport and catabolism
Preferred namepapA1
eggNOG descriptionCOG1020 Non-ribosomal peptide synthetase modules and related proteins
Orthologous groupCOG1020
Gene Ontology (24) GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0006082, GO:0006629, GO:0006790, GO:0008150, GO:0008152, GO:0008610, GO:0009058, GO:0009987, GO:0016740, GO:0016746 +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 0.409 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 11 synonymous, 14 missense, 0 nonsense, 1 frameshift
Disruption 1 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 0.54% of strains (790) · clonal

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
CondensationPF00668.26 6.5e-1571–385 Condensation domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: pks2 (phthioceranic/hydroxyphthioceranic acid synthase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 991 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3825c pks2 phthioceranic/hydroxyphthioceranic acid synthase 998 991 ctx neighborhood:665 coexpression:888 experimental:721 textmining:831
Rv3823c mmpL8 integral membrane transport protein MmpL8 994 937 ctx neighborhood:535 coexpression:803 textmining:915
Rv1527c pks5 polyketide synthase 905 889 coexpression:466 experimental:721
Rv2940c mas multifunctional mycocerosic acid synthase 911 887 coexpression:468 experimental:721
Rv2048c pks12 polyketide synthase 897 880 coexpression:468 experimental:721
Rv2933 ppsC phthiocerol synthesis polyketide synthase type I PpsC 903 864 coexpression:468 experimental:721
Rv1181 pks4 polyketide beta-ketoacyl synthase 955 861 ctx cooccurence:400 coexpression:551 experimental:473 textmining:690
Rv3800c pks13 polyketide synthase 890 856 coexpression:660 experimental:473
Rv2377c mbtH hyp hypothetical protein 762 747 coexpression:426 experimental:564
Rv2946c pks1 polyketide synthase 799 731 coexpression:441 experimental:473
Rv1661 pks7 polyketide synthase 753 725 coexpression:442 experimental:473
Rv2932 ppsB phthiocerol synthesis polyketide synthase type I PpsB 755 722 coexpression:443 experimental:473
Rv2383c mbtB phenyloxazoline synthase 797 716 coexpression:680
Rv2931 ppsA phthiocerol synthesis polyketide synthase type I PpsA 790 704 coexpression:442 experimental:473
Rv0405 pks6 membrane bound polyketide synthase 719 703 coexpression:440 experimental:473

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: acyltransferase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: acyltransferase PapA1
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Condensation PF00668.26 (E=6e-15)
  • (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_218341.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Condensation (PF00668.26)
  • 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 COG1020
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WIK9 (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 — 110 functional partner(s); context anchor pks2
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_004053|Rv3824c|papA1
MRIGPVELSAVKDWDPAPGVLVSWHPTPASCAKALAAPVSAVPPSYVQARQIRSFSEQAARGLDHSRLLIASVEVFGHCDLRAMTYVINAHLRRHDTYRSWFELRDTDHIVRHSIADPADIEFVPTTHGEMTSADLRQHIVATPDSLHWDCFSFGVIQRADSFTFYASIDHLHADGQFVGVGLMEFQSMYTALIMGEPPIGLSEAGSYVDFCVRQHEYTSALTVDSPEVRAWIDFAEINNGTFPEFPLPLGDPSVRCGGDLLSMMLMDEQQTQRFESACMAANARFIGGMLACIAIAIHELTGADTYFGITPKDIRTPADLMTQGWFTGQIPVTVPVAGLSFNEIARIAQTSFDTGADLAKVPFERVVELSPSLRRPQPLFSLVNFFDAQVGPLSAVTKLFEGLNVGTYSDGRVTYPLSTMVGRFDETAASVLFPDNPVARESVTAYLRAIRSVCMRIANGGTAERVGNVVALSPGRRNNIERMTWRSCRAGDFIDICNLKVANVTVDREA