Rv3831 Family assigned · low

H37Rv Rv3831 · MTBC0 mtbc0_004060 · 160 aa · 4329867–4330349 (+) · RefSeq NP_218348.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)hypothetical protein
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationDUF2834 domain-containing protein
Revised (this work)Polytopic integral membrane protein with 5 predicted transmembrane helices (DeepTMHMM). RefSeq leaves it 'hypothetical protein'. A topological feature consistent with a membrane transporter/permease or membrane-embedded enzyme; the transported substrate and molecular function are undetermined.

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P96247 TrEMBL · unreviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameDUF2834 domain-containing protein

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category S Function unknown
eggNOG descriptionProtein of unknown function (DUF2834)
Orthologous group2E0KF

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 0.339 · purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 4 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
DUF2834PF11196.14 3.6e-2341–146 Protein of unknown function DUF2834

Structural neighbours (Foldseek on the ESMFold model, exploratory)

ESMFold model confidence: mean pLDDT 94.6 (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
9fw3-assembly1_B 0.05 0.18 1.7e+00 9fw3-assembly1_B Cryo-EM structure of IrtAB 2xEQ mutant in outward-occluded state in nanodisc in complex with mycobactin

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

Closest characterised functional partner: Rv3830c (TetR family transcriptional regulator), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 787 excluding text-mining). This association is the citable seed of a function hypothesis for this hypothetical protein.

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3830c TetR family transcriptional regulator 787 787 ctx neighborhood:785
Rv3829c dehydrogenase 531 531 ctx neighborhood:526
Rv3828c resolvase 460 460 ctx neighborhood:457
Rv3827c transposase 459 459 ctx neighborhood:457

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

  • DeepTMHMM: 5 transmembrane helices (type TM)
  • Integral membrane topology (localisation feature, not a function)
  • DeepTMHMM topology prediction (project 'Still unknown gene function', phase8, 2026-06-10). A topological feature, not a demonstrated molecular function.

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_218348.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — DUF2834 (PF11196.14)
  • 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 2E0KF
  • Curated reference: UniProt P96247 (TrEMBL, unreviewed; 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 94.6, very high)
  • Interaction network: STRING v12.0 (Szklarczyk et al. 2023, doi:10.1093/nar/gkac1000), taxon 83332, CC-BY 4.0 — 4 functional partner(s); context anchor Rv3830c
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_004060|Rv3831|
MVSLLVHAALGVVVIGWIVSSNPKVFTRPAGGSWFSLPECVYYVVGIASIALGWYFNIRFVQQYAHGAANPLWGPGSWAEYVRLMFTNPAASSAGQDYTIANVILLPLFSTTDGYRRGLRRPWLYFVSSLFTSFAFAFAFYFATIERQHRHERSRATVGA