parB Family assigned · medium auto-curated

H37Rv Rv3917c · MTBC0 mtbc0_004151 · 344 aa · 4429708–4430742 (-) · RefSeq NP_218435.2

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)chromosome partitioning protein ParB
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationParB/RepB/Spo0J family partition protein
Revised (this work)ParB/RepB/Spo0J family partition protein. Pfam: ParB_N (PF02195.27), HTH_ParB (PF17762.9), ParB_C (PF23552.3).

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

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WIJ9 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameProbable chromosome-partitioning protein ParB
Curated functionInvolved in chromosome partition. Localize to both poles of the predivisional cell following completion of DNA replication. Binds to the DNA origin of replication (By similarity).

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category K Transcription
Preferred nameparB
eggNOG descriptionBelongs to the ParB family
Orthologous groupCOG1475
KEGG orthology K03497
Gene Ontology (17) GO:0005575, GO:0005576, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005694, GO:0005886, GO:0008150, GO:0016020, GO:0040007, GO:0043226, GO:0043228, GO:0043229 +5 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 0.548 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 4 synonymous, 6 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
ParB_NPF02195.27 5.8e-3457–155 ParB N-terminal domain
HTH_ParBPF17762.9 3.3e-33159–256 ParB HTH domain
ParB_CPF23552.3 1.9e-05286–327 ParB dimerisation domain

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

Closest characterised functional partner: parA (chromosome partitioning protein ParA), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 998 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv3918c parA chromosome partitioning protein ParA 999 998 ctx neighborhood:882 cooccurence:773 coexpression:892 textmining:580
Rv3919c gid 16S rRNA (guanine(527)-N(7))-methyltransferase RsmG 983 981 ctx neighborhood:881 coexpression:850
Rv1708 initiation inhibitor protein 945 924 ctx cooccurence:773 coexpression:478
Rv3213c SOJ/ParA-like protein 941 924 ctx cooccurence:773 coexpression:477
Rv3920c hyp hypothetical protein 842 833 ctx neighborhood:758
Rv3921c yidC membrane protein insertase YidC 791 784 ctx neighborhood:697
Rv2748c ftsK DNA translocase FtsK 880 762 ctx cooccurence:757 textmining:517
Rv3922c yidD membrane protein insertion efficiency factor 662 663 ctx neighborhood:642
Rv3916c hyp hypothetical protein 535 535 ctx neighborhood:524
Rv3923c rnpA ribonuclease P protein component 557 531 ctx neighborhood:502
Rv3924c rpmH 50S ribosomal protein L34 523 501 ctx neighborhood:501
Rv1701 xerD tyrosine recombinase XerD 517 491 ctx cooccurence:481
Rv0513 transmembrane protein 474 474 coexpression:474
Rv2894c xerC tyrosine recombinase XerC 481 454 ctx cooccurence:449
Rv2166c mraZ transcriptional regulator MraZ 443 443 ctx cooccurence:420

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: chromosome partitioning protein ParB
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: ParB/RepB/Spo0J family partition protein
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): ParB_N PF02195.27 (E=6e-34), HTH_ParB PF17762.9 (E=3e-33), ParB_C PF23552.3 (E=2e-05)
  • (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_218435.2)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — ParB_N (PF02195.27), HTH_ParB (PF17762.9), ParB_C (PF23552.3)
  • 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 COG1475
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WIJ9 (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 — 33 functional partner(s); context anchor parA
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_004151|Rv3917c|parB
MTQPSRRKGGLGRGLAALIPTGPADGESGPPTLGPRMGSATADVVIGGPVPDTSVMGAIYREIPPSAIEANPRQPRQVFDEEALAELVHSIREFGLLQPIVVRSLAGSQTGVRYQIVMGERRWRAAQEAGLATIPAIVRETGDDNLLRDALLENIHRVQLNPLEEAAAYQQLLDEFGVTHDELAARIGRSRPLITNMIRLLKLPIPVQRRVAAGVLSAGHARALLSLEAGPEAQEELASRIVAEGLSVRATEETVTLANHEANRQAHHSDATTPAPPRRKPIQMPGLQDVAERLSTTFDTRVTVSLGKRKGKIVVEFGSVDDLARIVGLMTTDGRDKGLHRDAL