PE35 Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3872 · MTBC0 - · 99 aa · 4350745–4351044 (+) · RefSeq YP_178021.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)PE family protein PE35
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)PE family protein PE35. Pfam: PE (PF00934.26).

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

Annotated on the H37Rv protein: this gene has no 1:1 ancestral MTBC0 anchor (PE/PPE, paralogue, IS element, or otherwise unanchored CDS).

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WIG7 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt namePE family immunomodulator PE35
Curated functionPlays a major role in RD1-associated pathogenesis, and may contribute to the establishment and maintenance of M.tuberculosis infection. Together with PPE68, stimulates the secretion of IL-10 and MCP-1 from human macrophages, via the interaction with human Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2).

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category S Function unknown
eggNOG descriptionPE family
Orthologous group2AXVZ
Gene Ontology (2) GO:0005575, GO:0005576

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 n/a
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 0 synonymous, 1 missense, 1 nonsense, 1 frameshift
Disruption 2 distinct premature-stop/frameshift site(s); most common in 97.72% of strains (141903) · reference-fixed

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
PEPF00934.26 2.0e-1125–90 PE family

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

Closest characterised functional partner: PPE68 (PPE family protein PPE68), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 834 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3873 PPE68 PPE family protein PPE68 988 834 ctx neighborhood:681 experimental:500 textmining:933
Rv3871 eccCb1 ESX-1 secretion system protein EccCb 906 546 ctx neighborhood:546 textmining:803
Rv3874 esxB ESAT-6-like protein EsxB 907 475 ctx neighborhood:475 textmining:831
Rv3870 eccCa1 ESX-1 secretion system protein EccCa 656 420 ctx neighborhood:420 textmining:431
Rv3869 eccB1 ESX-1 secretion system protein EccB 570 420 ctx neighborhood:420
Rv3868 eccA1 ESX-1 secretion system protein EccA1 506 420 ctx neighborhood:420
Rv3875 esxA ESAT-6 protein EsxA 859 415 ctx neighborhood:415 textmining:770
Rv3867 espH ESX-1 secretion-associated protein EspH 452 357
Rv3866 espG1 ESX-1 secretion-associated protein EspG 534 325
Rv3877 eccD1 ESX-1 secretion system protein EccD1 746 298 textmining:653
Rv3876 espI ESX-1 secretion-associated protein EspI 726 298 textmining:626
Rv3864 espE ESX-1 secretion-associated protein EspE 530 255
Rv3878 espJ ESX-1 secretion-associated protein EspJ 745 223 textmining:685
Rv0285 PE5 PE family protein PE5 664 41 textmining:665
Rv3879c espK ESX-1 secretion-associated protein EspK 655 41 textmining:655

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

  • Annotation from H37Rv (no MTBC0 1:1 anchor; H37Rv protein used): PE family protein PE35
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): PE PF00934.26 (E=2e-11)
  • (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 YP_178021.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — PE (PF00934.26)
  • 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 2AXVZ
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WIG7 (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 — 24 functional partner(s); context anchor PPE68
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv3872|PE35
MEKMSHDPIAADIGTQVSDNALHGVTAGSTALTSVTGLVPAGADEVSAQAATAFTSEGIQLLASNASAQDQLHRAGEAVQDVARTYSQIDDGAAGVFAE