ncrMT1234 MTB000075

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

1340578–1340625 (+ strand), 48 nt, on H37Rv (NC_000962.3). Intergenic (no overlapping coding sequence). Upstream neighbour Rv1196 (54 bp). Downstream neighbour Rv1197 (34 bp).

Intra-MTBC variation

Genomes surveyed145,209
Variable sites35
Variants reaching 0.1 % of genomes 0
Carriers of the most widespread variant70

Coverage control

Variant density inside this RNA: 72.9 sites/100 bp, versus 64.0 in the flanking ±500 bp (GC 52.1 %). 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

54.2 % of bases are paired in the minimum-free-energy fold (26 paired, 22 unpaired). Folded in isolation; the in vivo structure may differ (partners, co-transcriptional folding).

Legacy record

ncrMT1234, fragment of putative small regulatory RNA (See Pelly et al., 2012), cloned from M. tuberculosis CDC1551; supported by RNA-seq in H37Rv (unpublished data).

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