mcr19 MTB000060

ncRNA Fragment of putative small regulatory RNA

This is an RNA, not a coding gene: it belongs to a separate track and carries none of the protein evidence layers.

Location

575033–575069 (+ strand), 37 nt, on H37Rv (NC_000962.3). Overlaps: Rv0485. Upstream neighbour Rv0484c (1232 bp). Downstream neighbour Rv0486 (279 bp).

Intra-MTBC variation

Genomes surveyed145,209
Variable sites24
Variants reaching 0.1 % of genomes 0
Carriers of the most widespread variant67

Coverage control

Variant density inside this RNA: 64.9 sites/100 bp, versus 63.0 in the flanking ±500 bp (GC 59.5 %). The flanks act as an internal witness: if variants are called normally around the RNA but none becomes widespread inside it, the constraint is real rather than a sequencing gap.

Verdict: COUVERTURE OK -> invariance biologique plausible

Read with care: constraint is not function. This RNA mutates like its surroundings, but no variant spreads through the population — which is evidence of selection acting on it, not evidence of what it does. Secondary-structure pairing was tested across the RNA set and did not explain this constraint.

Predicted secondary structure

64.9 % of bases are paired in the minimum-free-energy fold (24 paired, 13 unpaired). Folded in isolation; the in vivo structure may differ (partners, co-transcriptional folding).

Legacy record

mcr19, fragment of putative small regulatory RNA (See DiChiara et al., 2010), cloned from M. bovis BCG Pasteur; ends not mapped, 66-82 nt band detected by Northern blot in M. bovis BCG Pasteur.

Sources

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