ncRv0179 MTB000105

ncRNA 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

209683–209841 (+ strand), 159 nt, on H37Rv (NC_000962.3). Overlaps: Rv0179c. Upstream neighbour Rv0178 (11 bp). Downstream neighbour Rv0180c (1051 bp).

Intra-MTBC variation

Genomes surveyed145,209
Variable sites101
Variants reaching 0.1 % of genomes 0
Carriers of the most widespread variant33

Coverage control

Variant density inside this RNA: 63.5 sites/100 bp, versus 65.6 in the flanking ±500 bp (GC 68.6 %). 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

66.7 % of bases are paired in the minimum-free-energy fold (106 paired, 53 unpaired). Folded in isolation; the in vivo structure may differ (partners, co-transcriptional folding).

Legacy record

Supported by sRNA-Seq in H37Rv (see DeJesus et al. 2017)

Sources

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