serS Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3834c · MTBC0 mtbc0_004063 · 419 aa · 4331765–4333024 (-) · RefSeq NP_218351.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)serine--tRNA ligase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationserine--tRNA ligase
Revised (this work)Serine--tRNA ligase. Pfam: Seryl_tRNA_N (PF02403.28), tRNA-synt_2b (PF00587.31).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WFT7 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameSerine--tRNA ligase
EC (curated) EC 6.1.1.11
Curated functionCatalyzes the attachment of serine to tRNA(Ser). Is also able to aminoacylate tRNA(Sec) with serine, to form the misacylated tRNA L-seryl-tRNA(Sec), which will be further converted into selenocysteinyl-tRNA(Sec).

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category J Translation, ribosomal structure and biogenesis
Preferred nameserS
eggNOG descriptionCatalyzes the attachment of serine to tRNA(Ser). Is also able to aminoacylate tRNA(Sec) with serine, to form the misacylated tRNA L-seryl-tRNA(Sec), which will be further converted into selenocysteinyl-tRNA(Sec)
Orthologous groupCOG0172
EC number EC 6.1.1.11
KEGG orthology K01875
KEGG pathways map00970
KEGG modules M00359, M00360
Gene Ontology (8) GO:0005575, GO:0005623, GO:0005886, GO:0008150, GO:0016020, 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 0.144 · strong purifying
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 5 synonymous, 2 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
Seryl_tRNA_NPF02403.28 7.1e-261–105 Seryl-tRNA synthetase N-terminal domain
tRNA-synt_2bPF00587.31 3.9e-30217–393 tRNA synthetase class II core domain (G, H, P, S and T)

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

Closest characterised functional partner: cysS1 (cysteine--tRNA ligase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 789 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3580c cysS1 cysteine--tRNA ligase 851 789 ctx cooccurence:716
Rv3835 hyp hypothetical protein 775 776 ctx neighborhood:775
Rv2133c hyp hypothetical protein 771 771 experimental:771
Rv3836 hyp hypothetical protein 752 753 ctx neighborhood:751
Rv2448c valS valine--tRNA ligase 835 730 coexpression:651 textmining:416
Rv3922c yidD membrane protein insertion efficiency factor 728 728 coexpression:719
Rv2357c glyS glycine--tRNA ligase 779 711 coexpression:671
Rv2614c thrS threonine--tRNA ligase 851 703 ctx cooccurence:520 textmining:519
Rv1307 atpH ATP synthase subunit b/delta 664 664 coexpression:645
Rv3598c lysS lysine--tRNA ligase 935 642 coexpression:427 textmining:826
Rv1527c pks5 polyketide synthase 660 620 experimental:591
Rv2048c pks12 polyketide synthase 659 619 experimental:591
Rv2933 ppsC phthiocerol synthesis polyketide synthase type I PpsC 659 619 experimental:591
Rv3825c pks2 phthioceranic/hydroxyphthioceranic acid synthase 658 618 experimental:591
Rv2940c mas multifunctional mycocerosic acid synthase 658 618 experimental:591

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: serine--tRNA ligase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: serine--tRNA ligase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): Seryl_tRNA_N PF02403.28 (E=7e-26), tRNA-synt_2b PF00587.31 (E=4e-30)
  • (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_218351.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — Seryl_tRNA_N (PF02403.28), tRNA-synt_2b (PF00587.31)
  • 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 COG0172
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WFT7 (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 — 107 functional partner(s); context anchor cysS1
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_004063|Rv3834c|serS
MIDLKLLRENPDAVRRSQLSRGEDPALVDALLTADAARRAVISTADSLRAEQKAASKSVGGASPEERPPLLRRAKELAEQVKAAEADEVEAEAAFTAAHLAISNVIVDGVPAGGEDDYAVLDVVGEPSYLENPKDHLELGESLGLIDMQRGAKVSGSRFYFLTGRGALLQLGLLQLALKLAVDNGFVPTIPPVLVRPEVMVGTGFLGAHAEEVYRVEGDGLYLVGTSEVPLAGYHSGEILDLSRGPLRYAGWSSCFRREAGSHGKDTRGIIRVHQFDKVEGFVYCTPADAEHEHERLLGWQRQMLARIEVPYRVIDVAAGDLGSSAARKFDCEAWIPTQGAYRELTSTSNCTTFQARRLATRYRDASGKPQIAATLNGTLATTRWLVAILENHQRPDGSVRVPDALVPFVGVEVLEPVA