Gene Rv0959A
in Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv
General annotation
| Type | CDS |
| Function | Unknown |
| Product | Possible antitoxin VapB9 |
| Comments | Rv0959A, len: 73 aa. Possible vapB9, antitoxin, part of toxin-antitoxin (TA) operon with Rv0960 (See Arcus et al., 2005; Pandey and Gerdes, 2005). Weakly similar to others in Mycobacterium tuberculosis e.g. Rv1721c |
| Functional category | Virulence, detoxification, adaptation |
| Mutant | Non-essential gene for in vitro growth of H37Rv, by analysis of saturated Himar1 transposon libraries (see DeJesus et al. 2017). Check for mutants available at TARGET website |
Coordinates
| Type | Start | End | Orientation |
|---|---|---|---|
| CDS | 1073327 | 1073548 | + |
Genomic sequence
Feature type
Upstream flanking region (bp)
Downstream flanking region (bp)
Update
Protein sequence
>Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv|Rv0959A|vapB9
MKTLYLRNVPDDVVERLERLAELAKTSVSAVAVRELTEASRRADNPALLGDLPDIGIDTTELIGGIDAERAGR
Bibliography
- Pandey DP et al. [2005]. Toxin-antitoxin loci are highly abundant in free-living but lost from host-associated prokaryotes. Homology
- Arcus VL et al. [2005]. The PIN-domain toxin-antitoxin array in mycobacteria. Biochemistry
- Gupta A [2009]. Killing activity and rescue function of genome-wide toxin-antitoxin loci of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Function
- Ramage HR, Connolly LE and Cox JS [2009]. Comprehensive functional analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis toxin-antitoxin systems: implications for pathogenesis, stress responses, and evolution. Function
- DeJesus MA et al. [2017]. Comprehensive Essentiality Analysis of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Genome via Saturating Transposon Mutagenesis. Mutant
