eryCV

UniProt ID: A4F7N2
Organism: Saccharopolyspora erythraea NRRL 2338
Review Status: COMPLETE
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Gene Description

EryCV is an iron-sulfur, S-adenosyl-L-methionine-dependent (radical-SAM-type) enzyme of the TDP-D-desosamine biosynthetic pathway in Saccharopolyspora erythraea (UniProt/EMBL/MIBiG name: NDP-4,6-dideoxyhexose 3,4-enoyl reductase; the DesII-type member of the cluster's deoxysugar enzymes). It carries a [4Fe-4S] cluster and uses SAM, consistent with a radical-SAM mechanism; the precise catalytic outcome on the TDP-deoxysugar intermediate is not experimentally resolved in the records available.

Existing Annotations Review

GO Term Evidence Action Reason
GO:0003824 catalytic activity
IEA
GO_REF:0000002
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: Root-level "catalytic activity" - uninformative; EryCV is a specific iron-sulfur/SAM enzyme.
Reason: Under the project rule GO:0003824 is KEEP_AS_NON_CORE where no reaction is known, not MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED: the row is true and is as precise as the evidence allows. EryCV is Predicted (UniProt PE 4), its only name is an unreviewed submitter annotation, and the ammonia-lyase row in this review is UNDECIDED, so there is no specific reaction term to refine to.
GO:0016841 ammonia-lyase activity
IEA
GO_REF:0000002
UNDECIDED
Summary: Ammonia-lyase activity from an InterPro signature. This conflicts with the enzyme's name (3,4-enoyl reductase) and its radical-SAM (Fe-S/SAM) cofactor profile; DesII-type radical-SAM enzymes can catalyze dehydration/deamination, but the precise reaction here is unverified.
Reason: Conflicting electronic assignments (ammonia-lyase vs 3,4-enoyl reductase) with no accessible experimental characterization; the radical-SAM cofactor binding is, however, well supported.
GO:0033068 macrolide biosynthetic process
IEA
GO_REF:0000002
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: Involvement in macrolide deoxysugar biosynthesis, at the level family membership supports: the record matches the InterPro DesII entry this row fired on, plus two member-database signatures that name the same family and one that names the substrate, and DesII-family radical SAM enzymes act on the TDP-deoxysugar intermediates of macrolide amino-sugar (desosamine) pathways. True and as precise as the evidence allows, but not a core function.
Reason: Kept, and grounded on family membership rather than on the gene name, but non-core. The action follows the reason: this review asserts no core molecular function and no core process, so a pathway term with no established activity behind it cannot be the core function the ACCEPT it previously carried would claim. CLAUDE.md puts the disjunction directly -- where a term is already as precise as the evidence allows, keep it, ACCEPT if core and otherwise KEEP_AS_NON_CORE -- and GO:0003824 in this same review is kept non-core on exactly this argument, as are every retained row in PSEPK/PP_1969 and PSEPK/PP_2482, the members eryCV now matches. On the evidence: GO:0033068 is an InterPro2GO mapping (GO_REF:0000002) whose WITH/FROM names InterPro:IPR016863, so the first quote below is not merely consistent with the mapping, it is the entry the mapping fired on. Three member-database signatures agree, two of them naming the family (NCBIfam TIGR04426 rSAM_desII, SFLD SFLDG01116 DesII-like) and one naming the substrate itself (SFLD SFLDF00425 dTDP-4-amino-4,6-dideoxy-D-glucose, the desosamine precursor). The repository policy treats family and domain classification as good support for membership, and membership as an argument for function, so these place the protein in macrolide deoxysugar biosynthesis independently of the unreviewed submitter gene name. Note what this does and does not support: the genus term GO:0033068 follows from the family, while the erythromycin-specific child GO:1901115 would need this particular cluster to be the erythromycin one, which rests only on that submitter name -- which is why GO:1901115 is neither asserted nor proposed. The reaction itself remains unestablished, so this row says where the protein acts, not what it does.
Supporting Evidence:
file:SACEN/eryCV/eryCV-uniprot.txt
InterPro; IPR016863; DesII.
file:SACEN/eryCV/eryCV-uniprot.txt
NCBIfam; TIGR04426; rSAM_desII; 1.
file:SACEN/eryCV/eryCV-uniprot.txt
SFLD; SFLDG01116; DesII-like; 1.
file:SACEN/eryCV/eryCV-uniprot.txt
SFLD; SFLDF00425; dTDP-4-amino-4_6-dideoxy-D-glu; 1.
GO:0051536 iron-sulfur cluster binding
IEA
GO_REF:0000002
MODIFY
Summary: Iron-sulfur cluster binding. This row's InterPro2GO mapping fired on IPR007197 rSAM, named in the GOA row's WITH/FROM column, and the record matches that entry alongside the Pfam PF04055 Radical_SAM signature. Correct but general: the radical SAM cluster is [4Fe-4S].
Reason: Following the RADICAL_SAM project rule for the generic domain-derived rows (projects/RADICAL_SAM.md): correct but general. The entry has no COFACTOR block, but the radical SAM signatures it matches define the [4Fe-4S] cluster that reductively cleaves SAM, so GO:0051539, already carried by this entry, is the descendant the family always satisfies.
Proposed replacements: 4 iron, 4 sulfur cluster binding
Supporting Evidence:
file:SACEN/eryCV/eryCV-uniprot.txt
InterPro; IPR007197; rSAM.
file:SACEN/eryCV/eryCV-uniprot.txt
Pfam; PF04055; Radical_SAM; 1.
GO:0051539 4 iron, 4 sulfur cluster binding
IEA
GO_REF:0000002
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: [4Fe-4S] cluster binding, the hallmark cofactor of a radical SAM enzyme, inferred from signature matches rather than measured. This row's InterPro2GO mapping fired on the InterPro entry IPR016863 DesII, named in the GOA row's WITH/FROM column; the record matches that entry alongside the NCBIfam TIGR04426 rSAM_desII signature, and the Pfam PF04055 Radical_SAM match corroborates the cluster independently. Those three are what this row quotes. Which member-database signature InterPro integrates into which entry is not recorded in this file, so no such pairing is asserted.
Reason: The project rule ACCEPTs GO:0051539 for active members and keeps it non-core where catalysis is not established. Nothing is established for EryCV: the protein is Predicted (PE 4), no reaction has been assayed, and the cluster itself is inferred from family signatures rather than measured. Treated as the project treats the other uncharacterised members (PSEPK/PP_1969, PSEPK/PP_2482, TYW1B, aslB, ydeM), which assert no core molecular function.
Supporting Evidence:
file:SACEN/eryCV/eryCV-uniprot.txt
InterPro; IPR016863; DesII.
file:SACEN/eryCV/eryCV-uniprot.txt
NCBIfam; TIGR04426; rSAM_desII; 1.
file:SACEN/eryCV/eryCV-uniprot.txt
Pfam; PF04055; Radical_SAM; 1.

Core Functions

Radical SAM protein of the DesII-like subfamily, by the InterPro IPR016863 DesII entry and the Pfam PF04055, NCBIfam TIGR04426 and SFLD DesII-like member-database signatures. No molecular function and no biological process is asserted as core. No reaction has been assayed for this protein and the [4Fe-4S] cluster itself is inferred from those signatures rather than measured, so there is no activity to name. The family does place it in macrolide deoxysugar biosynthesis, which is why the GO:0033068 row is kept on that basis, but kept as non-core: a pathway with no established activity behind it is not a core function. The erythromycin-specific child GO:1901115 would need this cluster to be the erythromycin one, which rests only on the unreviewed submitter gene name, so it is neither asserted nor proposed. The reasoning is in review.reason on the GO:0003824, GO:0033068 and GO:0051539 rows.

Supporting Evidence:
  • file:SACEN/eryCV/eryCV-uniprot.txt
    Pfam; PF04055; Radical_SAM; 1.
  • file:SACEN/eryCV/eryCV-uniprot.txt
    InterPro; IPR016863; DesII.
  • file:SACEN/eryCV/eryCV-uniprot.txt
    NCBIfam; TIGR04426; rSAM_desII; 1.
  • file:SACEN/eryCV/eryCV-uniprot.txt
    SFLD; SFLDG01116; DesII-like; 1.

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Suggested Questions for Experts

Q: EVIDENCE GAP: what radical-SAM reaction does EryCV catalyze? It binds a [4Fe-4S] cluster and SAM (radical-SAM/DesII-type), but its UniProt/EMBL name ("3,4-enoyl reductase") and the GOA term ("ammonia-lyase activity") are conflicting electronic (IEA) assignments, with no experimental annotation. Tracked in projects/FUNCTION_KNOWLEDGE_GAPS.md.

Suggested Experiments

Experiment: Reconstitute EryCV with its [4Fe-4S] cluster and SAM to determine the actual radical-SAM reaction on the TDP-deoxysugar intermediate (e.g. dehydration/deamination vs reduction), resolving the ammonia-lyase-vs-reductase annotation conflict.

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