PseudoCAP annotation review: P. aeruginosa seeds of PAINT IBAs

IN_PROGRESS BIOLOGY_DOMAINPIPELINE

Collection: Propagation by homology

Species: PSEAE

Genes: aer aguB alg8 algA algB algC algU algZ alr ampD ampDh2 ampDh3 ampG ampR arcA arcB arcC arcD argA arr aruC aruG aruH astA astB atsA atuR azoR1 azoR2 azoR3 azu betT1 bfd bifA braC braD braF braG brlR cbrA ccmC ccmF ccoP1 ccoP2 ccpA cdhR cheZ cif cifR copR ctpH ctpL ctpM cueR cupA3 cyaA cyaB cysB cysH dadA1 dadA2 dadX dctP dctQ dgcB dgcP dksA dsbB1 dsbB2 dsdA eddB eraR estA exsA fabA fabB fabD fabV fadD1 fdnG fdnH fdnI fimU fiuA fleN fleQ fleS fliC fliD folP foxA foxI foxR fpr fpvI fpvR fur galU gbcB gbdR gbuA glmM glmR gltA gmd gntR hemB hfq hom hutF hutH hutI hutU infB katA kynB lap lasB lasI lhpL ligD liuA liuC liuE lolA lolD lpxA lpxC lpxL lysA mcpB mexA mexT mexX mexZ mgtE migA mltB1 motA motB motC msrA mucA mucB mucD mucR nalC nalD nbdA ndk nfxB nirJ nmoA np20 nrdA nrdJa nuh ohrR opdP opmQ oprB oprD oprE oprG PA0011 PA0148 PA0149 PA0305 PA0317 PA0471 PA0472 PA0692 PA0845 PA0847 PA0906 PA0920 PA0938 PA0949 PA1014 PA1024 PA1054 PA1055 PA1056 PA1057 PA1058 PA1059 PA1107 PA1204 PA1242 PA1257 PA1340 PA1341 PA1342 PA1486 PA1566 PA1611 PA1810 PA1811 PA2050 PA2057 PA2070 PA2077 PA2078 PA2089 PA2093 PA2126 PA2127 PA2133 PA2200 PA2280 PA2412 PA2580 PA2590 PA2634 PA2870 PA2986 PA2988 PA3047 PA3170 PA3177 PA3271 PA3343 PA3345 PA3677 PA3678 PA3697 PA3760 PA3761 PA3825 PA3859 PA3891 PA3933 PA3992 PA4079 PA4088 PA4156 PA4178 PA4218 PA4332 PA4379 PA4400 PA4503 PA4504 PA4505 PA4506 PA4521 PA4596 PA4624 PA4675 PA4843 PA4896 PA4910 PA4912 PA4921 PA4975 PA5017 PA5082 PA5085 PA5089 PA5134 PA5208 PA5291 PA5359 PA5376 PA5377 PA5384 PA5455 PA5456 PA5458 PA5484 PA5498 PA5504 PA5542 parC parE parR parS pchA pchB pctA pctB pctC pelA pfeA pfeE pfeS phnB phr phzC1 phzM phzS pilA pilB pilD pilM pilN pilT pilU pirA plcH pldA pmpM pmrB ppkA pppA pprA ppx pqsC pqsH prc prpC pscC pslC psrA ptrB ptxR ptxS putA putP pvdD pvdH pvdJ pvdQ pvdR pvdS pvdT pyrE Q9HTB8 quiP recG relA rhdA rmlC rocA1 rocR rpoS rppH sigX sltB1 speA speC speE2 speH spuA spuB spuD spuE spuI sucC sucD tatA tatC tesA tgpA thiI thrB tpbA tpbB tpx trpA trpC trpE trpG trpI vgrG1a vgrG1b vgrG1c vreI waaC waaF waaL wapR wbpA wbpD wbpE wbpI wbpL wbpW wbpX wbpY wspR wzx wzz xcpQ xcpR xcpS xcpV xcpW xcpX znuC

Warnings (2)

PseudoCAP annotation review: P. aeruginosa seeds of PAINT IBAs

Bottom line: PseudoCAP, the community annotation group of the
Pseudomonas Genome Database, made most of the experimental GO annotations on
Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 (1,841 of 2,941 experimental rows in QuickGO).
PAINT curators use some of those rows as seeds for ancestral-node (IBD)
annotations, which reach many other proteins as IBAs, so an error in a seed is
copied to every descendant. Of 471 PAO1 proteins that seed an IBD, 398 have a
PseudoCAP annotation supporting at least one seeding; for 139 node terms (109
proteins) the PAO1 protein is the only seed. We reviewed all 109 of those
proteins: 106 have full reviews, and the review files for pvdE, pqsA and PA2403
are still to be written. For 21 genes the seed is wrong or
is an indirect mutant phenotype, and the IBD it supports should be withdrawn or
repointed. Examples are catalase activity on a heme exporter (ccmC), lipid
biosynthesis on an esterase (estA), DNA endonuclease activity from a mistyped
GO id (pilU), and signal transduction on a signal synthase (lasI). For 23 the
seed is right for PAO1 but the node carries the term to proteins or lineages it
does not fit. For 30 the claim is true but the PseudoCAP row misstates the
evidence code, qualifier or reference, and 32 are sound. The reviews record 116
defects for PseudoCAP and 75 for PAINT, written up in
PSEUDOCAP/defects/.

Tier 2, the 289 proteins whose node terms have other seeds as well, is now
reviewed too: 284 of 289 genes, 342 seedings and 43,061 leaf IBAs. There most
seeds hold and most nodes stand on their other seeds, but the reviews still
record 156 PseudoCAP defects and 41 for PAINT, including eleven seed rows that
describe a different gene or organism and a pair of choline transporters whose
annotations are swapped. Across all PAO1 reviews the reports now hold 272
PseudoCAP, 116 PAINT, 15 UniProt and 12 other defects.

Why start with IBA seeds

An IBA is a projection of an IBD made at a PANTHER tree node (see
IBA_REVIEW). PAINT curators place the IBD after reading the
experimental annotations of the node's descendants, so a seed annotation is
load-bearing in a way an ordinary experimental row is not. Two features of the
PseudoCAP corpus make the seeds worth checking first:

Data and method

The worklist is built by
build_iba_seed_worklist.py and
written to iba_seed_worklist.yaml
(generated 2026-10-28). It downloads, into the git-ignored .cache/paint/:

A PAO1 protein seeds a node term when it is listed in that IBD row's WITH
column. A seeding is PseudoCAP-supported when one of the protein's
non-negated experimental annotations, assigned by PseudoCAP, is the node term
or an is_a/part_of descendant of it. Every PAO1 seeding found at least one
supporting experimental annotation, which is a useful check on the join.
Leaf IBAs are counted per node and term from the leaf IBA file. That file
covers only PANTHER's reference proteomes, so the counts are lower bounds:
GOA also projects IBAs onto the rest of UniProtKB. For three nodes checked in
QuickGO on 2026-10-28 (all terms from the node together), the GOA rows were
925 for PTN001247822 (ccmC; 143 catalase IBAs in the reference file), 1,770 for
PTN005219546 (estA; 960 per term) and 369 for PTN002388087 (PA4079; 27).

Ranking: tier 1 genes are the only seed of at least one node term;
tier 2 genes share every node with other seeds. Within a tier, genes are
ordered by the leaf IBAs that hang on their sole-seeded nodes, then by total
leaf IBAs.

Count
PAO1 proteins seeding an IBD 471
PAO1 node-term seedings 663
Proteins with a PseudoCAP-supported seeding 398
PseudoCAP-supported seedings 522
of which sole-seeded (tier 1 node terms) 139
Tier 1 proteins 109
Tier 2 proteins 289
Leaf IBAs downstream of PseudoCAP-supported seedings 51,455
Leaf IBAs downstream of sole-seeded ones 4,772
Worklist genes already reviewed before this project 5 (cysH, pqsC, alg8, wzm/Q9HTB8, pvdH)

Per-gene review protocol

Each gene gets a full review (all GOA rows, core functions, notes). On top of
that, the notes file carries a ## PseudoCAP IBA-seed assessment table with,
for every seeding node: the PTN node, node term, number of seeds, leaf IBAs,
the seed annotation, and a verdict:

Errors in a PseudoCAP row are recorded as review.source_defects with
resource: PSEUDOCAP (added to SourceResourceEnum for this project). When a
wrong seed leaves the IBD unsupported, a second defect with
resource: GO_CENTRAL names the PTN node, so just export-source-defects
produces one report for PseudoCAP and one for PAINT.

Results: tier 1 (sole seeds)

All 109 tier 1 proteins have been assessed, and 106 have full reviews. The
review files for pvdE, pqsA and PA2403 still need writing (see below), so they
are tallied separately; pvdE's notes and seed assessment (seed sound, node too
broad) are committed. Each gene is classified by the outcome for
its sole-seeded node terms. Leaf IBA counts are the worklist's
reference-proteome counts for those terms, so they are lower bounds.

Outcome Genes Leaf IBAs
Seed wrong or indirect: the IBD should be withdrawn or repointed 21 1,481
Seed right for PAO1, but the node term does not fit its clade 23 664
Claim true, but the seed row's evidence code, qualifier or reference is wrong 30 1,043
Sound 32 1,433
Review file not yet written (pvdE, pqsA, PA2403) 3 151
Total 109 4,772

The classification is by the worst outcome among a gene's sole-seeded nodes;
several "sound" genes still have defects on other rows (for example lap and
lasB, which are given secretion-system terms for being secretion cargo).

Upstream reports

export_pseae_defects.py collects the
source_defects recorded in all PAO1 reviews into one report per resource in
PSEUDOCAP/defects/. After tier 2, and after
the merge from main that brought in the AST-module and eut reviews, they stand
at 272 for PseudoCAP (123 wrong term, 84 wrong evidence code, 41 wrong
reference, 14 wrong qualifier, 8 wrong gene product, 2 other), 116 for PAINT/GO Central,
23 for UniProt, 7 for InterPro (which now has its own report, since the
InterPro2GO mappings outgrew the catch-all) and 5 for other resources: 423 in
all, matching the 423 source_defects entries recorded under genes/PSEAE. They
include defects from PAO1 reviews made before this project. The tier-1 counts
quoted below are the totals as they stood at the end of tier 1 (116, 75, 5 and
11).

Confidence follows the rule in REVIEW_PROTOCOL:
CONFIRMED needs the full text, primary data we checked, or an abstract that
states the decisive fact outright; a call that rests on what an abstract does
not say is SUSPECTED. On 2026-10-29 we audited the 66 PseudoCAP defects at
PROBABLE or CONFIRMED whose papers we hold only as abstracts, after the xcp
review-as-IDA call turned out to have been made from an abstract (the full
text, supplied by the user, later confirmed it). Of the 66, 18 dropped to
SUSPECTED, 2 dropped from CONFIRMED to PROBABLE, 7 rose to CONFIRMED on a
full-text read (lhpL, pilA, waaL), and 39 were unchanged; none was removed and
no annotation action changed. Six more were then raised to CONFIRMED because
the abstract states the decisive fact outright (PA1340 and PA2280: the paper
is about another organism; cysB: CysB is a transcription factor whose mutant is
an auxotroph; estA: an overexpression result coded IDA). The user then
supplied four full texts, which settled 16 more calls on 2026-11-05:
PMID:16030218 (the only sha mutant is the PA1054 insertion, so the ten IMP
evidence-code defects on PA1055-PA1059 are CONFIRMED), PMID:4290562 (step III
is never assayed and there is no hutI or hutF mutant; histidase is assayed
directly, so hutH's IMP should be IDA), PMID:7768797 (oprB's evidence is
whole-cell uptake in mutant and overexpressing strains, so IMP) and
PMID:9224878 (its Fig. 1 is a pilA mutant twitching assay, so pilA's IMP
stands and that defect was removed). The PseudoCAP report stood at 36
CONFIRMED, 56 PROBABLE and 24 SUSPECTED at the end of tier 1, and the PAINT
report at 6, 56 and 13. After tier 2 and the tree check (below) the totals are
96, 126 and 50 for PseudoCAP and 32, 83 and 1 for PAINT.

Checked against the tree

Node-level calls were first made from the PAINT leaf list, which says what a node
reaches but not how the clade is shaped. panther_tree.py
now pulls the family's real topology from the PANTHER treeinfo service and reports a
node's event type, its subfamily composition, every leaf, and the smallest clade holding
a given set of accessions. The trees for 103 of the 105 nodes we filed against were
fetched this way; the other two (hutH, pfeS) were resolved by hand, and pfeS turned out
not to sit in the family UniProt assigns it.

Every defect that had been left SUSPECTED pending the tree was re-examined on 2026-11-05.
The PAINT report moved from 17 CONFIRMED, 82 PROBABLE and 17 SUSPECTED to 37 CONFIRMED,
77 PROBABLE and 2 SUSPECTED
(116 entries in all). The 32/83/1 split quoted here earlier was
exact when first written, but the leaf-evidence audit in 1f556e0 regenerated the reports and
changed it; the totals still summed to 116, which is why the stale figures survived several
reading passes. The check does three different things:

Per-gene verdicts

Verdicts on the PseudoCAP seed and on the IBD it feeds. "Defects" are the
source_defects recorded in the review (P = PseudoCAP, G = GO_CENTRAL/PAINT).

Rank Gene Locus Sole-seeded node term (PTN) Leaf IBAs Seed verdict IBD verdict Defects
1 estA PA5112 lipid biosynthetic process (PTN005219546) 960 INDIRECT-PHENOTYPE: a deletion makes less rhamnolipid; EstA is an outer-membrane esterase, the synthesis steps are RhlA/B/C Unsupported: withdraw this IBD (the node's esterase IBD is sound) P (x3), G, UniProt
2 pqsH PA2587 monooxygenase activity (PTN008173107) 297 SOUND, under-specific (should be GO:0102164 HHQ monooxygenase) Sound at family root; ~294 plant leaves rest on this one bacterial seed P
3 lap PA2939 proteolysis (PTN000254534) 272 SOUND (purified enzyme) Sound none on seed; 2 P on T2SS/Sec cargo rows
4 fleN PA1454 ATP binding (PTN000344128) 149 WRONG evidence code: IDA for a sequence motif Term true (later structures), needs a real seed P, G
5 PA5458 PA5458 lipopolysaccharide biosynthetic process (PTN000546841); polysaccharide biosynthetic process (PTN000546715) 31 + 113 SOUND but general (O-antigen modification; one row IDA without an assay) Both wrong for clade: 15/31 leaves in non-LPS organisms (OatA peptidoglycan O-acetyltransferases); 109/113 leaves eukaryotic P, G (x2)
6 ccmC PA1477 catalase activity (PTN001247822) 143 INDIRECT-PHENOTYPE, and cites an E. coli paper Unsupported: drop catalase from the node P (x7), G
7 pvdE PA2397 ATPase-coupled transmembrane transporter activity (PTN000656738) 140 SOUND Node too deep: 126 of 140 leaves are NBD-only proteins G (planned)
8 PA1024 PA1024 oxidoreductase activity (PTN002844975) 122 SOUND (purified enzyme) Sound; generic term right for a clade with one characterised member none on seed; InterPro2GO NMO mapping removed
9 hutI PA5092 imidazolonepropionase activity; L-histidine catabolic process (PTN000505272) 52 UNVERIFIABLE: 1967 paper predates genes and never mentions step III Term right for a LUCA node (reaches human AMDHD1), but its only anchor is weak: re-seed P
10 phzS PA4217 monooxygenase activity (PTN002492679) 104 SOUND claim, wrong reference (a crystallization note) Sound at family root; one misplaced leaf (Synechocystis ChlP) P
11 pilB PA4526 ATP hydrolysis activity (PTN001250205) 90 SOUND (purified ATPase, PMID:18174131) Sound P (x2, other rows: wrong reference / evidence code)
12 phzM PA4209 S-adenosylmethionine-dependent methyltransferase activity (PTN002463933) 80 SOUND Sound at family root none on seed
13 braF PA1071 L-valine/L-isoleucine import, L-alanine transport (PTN000656921) 75 SOUND via reconstitution (PMID:1400443); the growth screen alone is weak Substrate terms stretch across a node of paralogous ATPases whose binding proteins set specificity none
14 wbpD PA3156 acetyltransferase activity (PTN001917401); UDP-glucuronate biosynthetic process (PTN001292385) 67 + 8 Acetyltransferase SOUND; UDP-glucuronate WRONG (WbpD acetylates UDP-GlcNAc3NA, not in UDP-GlcA synthesis) Acetyltransferase sound; UDP-glucuronate IBD wrong P, G
15 xcpX PA3097 T2SS complex; protein secretion by T2SS (PTN000475915) 35 SOUND; process row cites a review as IDA; the full text has no original secretion data, so TAS Sound P (CONFIRMED)
16 waaL PA4999 polysaccharide biosynthetic process (PTN008076295) 64 SOUND; seed term arguably the wrong step Sound; ligase-activity row removed (WaaL is ATP-independent) P (x6)
17 PA3891 PA3891 plasma membrane (PTN001953445); ABC-type glycine betaine transporter activity (PTN001953060) 54 INDIRECT: "IDA" is cross-species complementation of a P. syringae opuCA mutant; substrate data are the ortholog's Plausible, but should be re-seeded from the characterised ortholog P (x2), G (x2)
18 wbpY PA5448 lipopolysaccharide biosynthetic process (PTN000749272) 51 SOUND Sound; its shared glycosyltransferase node should be re-seeded from a 2022 direct assay P, G
19 PA0692 PA0692 type V secretion process and complex (PTN002160772) 25 SOUND; complex row is IMP, which cannot show membership Sound P
20 mgtE PA0913 magnesium ion transport; magnesium ion binding (PTN000227060) 50 Transport SOUND; binding INDIRECT (IMP on homology-model sites; binding very likely true by conservation) 6 of 22 leaves lack the MgtE transmembrane domain yet inherit transport P, G (x2)
21 PA1055 PA1055 sodium:proton antiporter activity; sodium ion transmembrane transport (PTN002160376) 48 INDIRECT: only shaA was deleted; antiporter activity is the whole Sha complex's, so contributes_to Should be contributes_to; node includes archaeal hydrogenase subunits P (x2), G
22 pilM PA5044 type IV pilus; type IV pilus-dependent motility (PTN001286216) 46 Location WRONG: IMP "no pili" turned into located_in pilus (same row given to pilN/O/P); motility SOUND Pilus CC IBD unsupported; node also reaches EutJ ethanolamine-utilization proteins P, G (x2)
23 PA3760 PA3760 N-acetylglucosamine transport (PTN000532509) 43 SOUND for PA3760 OVER-SPECIFIC: node is general Enzyme I (PtsI, PtsP, FruB) G
24 hutH PA5098 histidine ammonia-lyase activity; L-histidine catabolic process (PTN000796665) 42 SOUND (direct assay of the partially purified enzyme), coded IMP instead of IDA Sound; but PAO1 paralog PA5093, which lacks the catalytic Ala-Ser-Gly motif, inherits it P, G (NOT on PA5093)
25 hom PA3736 L-threonine biosynthetic process (PTN000752178) 41 UNVERIFIABLE: cited paper is about ThrH/ThrB; one PMID applied to all thr genes Term right for an all-homoserine-dehydrogenase clade; needs a real anchor P
26 PA1057 PA1057 sodium:proton antiporter activity; sodium ion transmembrane transport (PTN002160407) 40 INDIRECT, as PA1055; MrpE is an assembly subunit Should be contributes_to P (x2), G
27 PA5377 PA5377 carnitine transport and transporter activity; choline transport (PTN000766131) 39 Choline/betaine SOUND; carnitine OVER-SPECIFIC (needs the separate binding protein CaiX); amine transporter activity WRONG (quaternary ammonium is not an amine in GO) Carnitine IBDs on the permease node not supported; amine IBD should be repointed P (x4), G (x3)
28 nrdJa PA5497 ribonucleoside-diphosphate reductase activity, thioredoxin as acceptor (PTN000171476) 39 OVER-SPECIFIC: purified NrdJ prefers CTP over CDP >60-fold and thioredoxin was never used Clade mixes NDP- and NTP-specific reductases P, G
29 cif PA2934 epoxide hydrolase activity (PTN002458043) 38 SOUND (structure, kinetics) Sound; its broad hydrolase node (791 IBAs) also sound P (reference on another row)
30 braD PA1073 L-isoleucine import, L-alanine transport (PTN000765102) 36 SOUND (as braF) Sound, same caveat; D-alanine transport seed is an indirect phenotype none
31 gltA PA1580 tricarboxylic acid cycle (PTN002450857) 36 SOUND claim; IDA on an enzyme purification (IC would be accurate) Sound P
32 aruC PA0895 L-arginine biosynthetic process (PTN000241318) 35 SOUND (dual biosynthetic/catabolic aminotransferase; enzyme data only) Node also passes it to LysJ, diaminobutyrate aminotransferase and AstC leaves G
33 gbuA PA1421 L-arginine catabolic process (PTN004253691) 34 SOUND for GbuA Over-reaches across a guanidino-acid hydrolase clade (AGMAT, GpuA); separate guanidinopropionase IBA contradicted by assay G (x2)
34 pilD PA4528 aspartic-type endopeptidase activity (PTN000766410) 33 SOUND (purified enzyme) Sound P (reference query on a plasma membrane row)
35 dgcB PA5399 oxidoreductase activity (PTN000229983) 33 INDIRECT: transposon growth + NMR coded IDA; the chemistry probably belongs to DgcA Generic node term defensible from domains P (x2), G
36 pqsC PA0998 secondary metabolite biosynthetic process (PTN002147059) 30 SOUND (own transposon mutant loses PQS) Over-broad: node sits above ordinary fatty-acid FabH enzymes G
37 PA0920 PA0920 phospholipid homeostasis; aminoacyltransferase; PG alanyltransferase (PTN002162750, PTN005059806) 28 Activities SOUND; phospholipid homeostasis WRONG (the gene makes A-PG; homeostasis needs the PA0919 hydrolase) Homeostasis IBD unsupported, and the node includes fungal ErgS sterol glycyltransferases P, G, UniProt
38 PA4079 PA4079 NAD(P) CH-OH oxidoreductase (PTN002388087) 27 SOUND (direct enzymology) Sound; generic term suits a cross-kingdom SDR clade none
39 pilU PA0396 DNA endonuclease activity, producing 5'-phosphomonoesters (PTN000766390) ~13 WRONG: GO:0016888 typed for GO:0016887 ATP hydrolysis (same paper and date as pilB) Unsupported: remove from node P, G
40 liuC PA2013 terpene catabolic process; methylglutaconyl-CoA hydratase activity (PTN001733227) 26 Terpene OVER-SPECIFIC (true for PAO1 only because the terpene pathway feeds leucine catabolism); hydratase UNVERIFIABLE (paper never mentions liuC) Terpene IBD should go: most leaves lack the pathway; node also covers AtuE and PksH P, G (x2)
41 PA4503 PA4503 dipeptide transmembrane transporter activity (PTN000765601) 25 SOUND claim; operon deletion coded IDA OVER-SPECIFIC: node holds NikB (nickel) and SapB (putrescine) permeases; binding protein sets substrate P, G
42 thiI PA5118 thiazole biosynthetic process (PTN001804941) 25 WRONG evidence: the paper is a Salmonella genetics study, coded IDA for P. aeruginosa Node is the family root, mostly short rhodanese-less ThiI that make s4U but not thiazole: re-place at the proteobacterial clade P, G
43 pscC PA1716 protein secretion by the type III secretion system (PTN009110345) 25 SOUND Sound; node is the T3SS-specific subnode none
44 cifR PA2931 negative regulation of DNA-templated transcription (PTN002934616) 25 SOUND (purified repressor binds mapped operators) Sound none
45 PA4624 PA4624 transmembrane protein transporter activity (PTN002160772) 25 SOUND (secretion readout of CdrA) Sound (TpsB subfamily) P (biofilm row)
46 xcpS PA3102 protein secretion by the T2SS (PTN000768597) 25 SOUND term; IDA cites a review (PMID:9818381) that has no original secretion data (full text checked); should be TAS Sound P (CONFIRMED)
47 xcpW PA3098 T2SS process and complex (PTN002446812) 24 SOUND terms; process IDA cites a review with no original secretion data (full text checked, should be TAS); complex IDA cites a paper whose abstract shows only membrane fractionation (unverified) Sound P (x2)
48 wzm PA5451 lipopolysaccharide transport (PTN002019107) 24 SOUND Over-broad: reaches teichoic-acid and capsule exporters and Gram-positive/archaeal permeases; polysaccharide transport would fit G
49 dctQ PA5168 C4-dicarboxylate transport (PTN002169725) 24 SOUND for DctQ OVER-SPECIFIC: YiaM-type clade (E. coli YiaM moves 2,3-diketo-L-gulonate) G
50 lpxA PA3644 lipopolysaccharide biosynthetic process (PTN000602377) 24 SOUND claim; reference is a lipid A structure paper that predates the gene Sound; lipid A biosynthesis would be sharper P
51 xcpV PA3099 T2SS process and complex (PTN002446181) 24 SOUND terms; same seed issues as xcpW Node may be too broad: 14 of 49 leaves named PilV/MshD/pilin P (x2), G (x2)
52 xcpQ PA3105 protein secretion by the T2SS (PTN000768388) 23 SOUND term; IDA cites a review with no original secretion data (full text checked); should be TAS Sound P (CONFIRMED)
53 relA PA0934 response to starvation (PTN001083175) 23 SOUND Sound; a SpoT hydrolase IBA from the same node was removed from RelA G
54 arcA PA5171 arginine deiminase activity (PTN005338738) 23 SOUND (mutants defined by loss of ADI alone; locus shown to encode it) Sound; a few short non-ADI leaves (YkgA, archaeal) to check G
55 nmoA PA4202 nitronate monooxygenase activity (PTN001284536) 23 SOUND (purified enzyme, structure) Over-broad: sibling leaf PA0660 was purified and has no NMO activity (a quinone reductase) G
56 pilN PA5043 type IV pilus; motility; pilus assembly (PTN002220336) 21 Location WRONG (same IMP "no pili" row as pilM, on an inner-membrane protein); motility and assembly SOUND Pilus CC IBD (added 2026-06-17) should be withdrawn P, G
57 lasB PA3724 proteolysis (PTN002138658) 21 SOUND Sound P (x2, cargo-as-machinery rows, as lap)
58 thrB PA5495 L-threonine biosynthetic process; homoserine kinase activity (PTN001464661) 20 Process SOUND but evidence is genetic (IGI, not IDA); kinase activity UNVERIFIABLE (no assay visible) Node includes B. subtilis AmiN, an amicoumacin kinase P (x2), G
59 hfq PA4944 regulation of RNA stability (PTN002164223) 20 SOUND (Hfq stabilises RsmY) Sound; less certain for Firmicutes leaves none on seed
60 pilA PA4525 type IV pilus-dependent motility; type IV pilus (PTN002013003) 20 SOUND claims; evidence codes wrong (mutant assay as IDA, review as IMP) Sound P (x2)
61 fliD PA1094 bacterial-type flagellum filament cap (PTN000767631) 20 SOUND claim; cited paper (mucin binding) shows no cap experiment Sound UniProt (subunit is hexamer, not pentamer)
62 PA1059 PA1059 sodium:proton antiporter activity (PTN002162936) 19 INDIRECT: subunit never mutated (ShaG) Should be contributes_to; node reaches archaeal hydrogenase subunits MbhC/MbxC P (x2), G
63 PA1058 PA1058 sodium:proton antiporter activity (PTN002162906) 19 INDIRECT: subunit never mutated (ShaF) Should be contributes_to; node reaches MbhB/MbxB P (x2), G
64 tgpA PA2873 protein-glutamine gamma-glutamyltransferase activity (PTN002126683) 17 OVER-SPECIFIC: kit assay of amine incorporation on an isolated domain, not protein cross-linking Node of papain-fold domains named by domain only; nearest characterised relative is a deamidase G
65 dksA PA4723 regulation of DNA-templated transcription (PTN002139169) 17 SOUND Sound P (wrong reference: paralog DksA2 paper)
66 pchB PA4230 salicylic acid biosynthetic process (PTN002211012) 17 SOUND for PchB (isochorismate pyruvate lyase) OVER-SPECIFIC: node is the AroQ chorismate mutase family root; the other 16 leaves are mutases with no lyase activity G
67 arcD PA5170 arginine:ornithine antiporter activity (PTN000208945) 16 SOUND; PseudoCAP IMP is really a proteoliposome assay (IDA) Sound; Chlamydia AaxC (arginine:agmatine) under the node P, G, UniProt
68 PA1054 PA1054 sodium ion transmembrane transport (PTN000511949) 16 SOUND: the one subunit actually deleted (ShaAB) Antiporter activity should be contributes_to P, G
69 PA1056 PA1056 sodium ion transmembrane transport (PTN001865541) 16 SOUND claim; IMP without a PA1056 mutant Sound; two complex I-derived IEA rows removed P (x2), G
70 hutF PA5106 L-histidine catabolic process (PTN000138516) 16 UNVERIFIABLE (1967 paper, as hutI); activity seed SOUND Re-anchor on PMID:16475788; three nematode leaves lack HutF signatures P, G
71 nirJ PA0511 heme biosynthetic process (PTN000132400) 15 SOUND for NirJ (heme d1) OVER-SPECIFIC: archaeal SPASM radical SAM clade; one other leaf is a heme-pathway enzyme G
72 xcpR PA3103 T2SS process and complex (PTN002016240) 14 Complex SOUND; process IDA cites a review with no original secretion data (full text checked) Sound; node restricted to Gammaproteobacteria, keeping T2SS terms off PilB-type ATPases P
73 oprG PA4067 transmembrane transport (PTN005107949) 13 SOUND (channel in planar bilayers) Sound none
74 fpr PA3397 heme catabolic process (PTN002500048) 13 SOUND for fpr as heme oxygenase electron donor OVER-SPECIFIC: a partner-specific role on a family node that includes E. coli and Salmonella Fpr G
75 PA4504 PA4504 dipeptide transmembrane transporter activity (PTN000766696) 12 SOUND claim; operon deletion coded IDA OVER-SPECIFIC: node holds NikC (nickel) and GsiD (glutathione) P, G
76 fur PA4764 negative regulation of siderophore biosynthetic process (PTN002112483) 12 SOUND for Fur OVER-SPECIFIC: leaves include Fur of Neisseria, Helicobacter, Coxiella; a sibling secondary-metabolite IBD sits on the whole Fur superfamily (Zur, PerR, Irr) G (x2)
77 PA1486 PA1486 aminopeptidase activity (PTN002194605) 12 SOUND (purified BapF) Sound none
78 pvdH PA2413 transaminase activity (PTN002461253) 11 SOUND (direct assay) Sound none
79 PA5085 PA5085 sequence-specific DNA binding (PTN001576694) 11 SOUND (EMSA with purified DguR) Sound none
80 cysB PA1754 L-cysteine biosynthetic process (PTN002824317) 10 INDIRECT: auxotrophy of a mutant of the pathway's transcriptional activator Unsupported: all 10 leaves are CysB/Cbl regulators P, G
81 oprB PA3186 carbohydrate transport (PTN002209977) 10 SOUND claim; mutant uptake coded IDA Sound P
82 PA0906 PA0906 regulation of DNA-templated transcription (PTN002221379) 10 SOUND (ChIP-seq, promoter fusions) Sound P (autolysis row)
83 PA2280 PA2280 NAD(P)H quinone oxidoreductase (PTN008682975) 10 WRONG reference: the cited paper studies Synechocystis ArsH; activity true from a later P. aeruginosa assay Sound content; re-cite the seed P, G
84 PA2580 PA2580 cellular response to oxidative stress (PTN002922793) 9 SOUND but weak (overexpression rescues only a katA mutant); quinone reductase row is a purified-enzyme assay coded IMP Sound; H. pylori ortholog knockout would be a better seed P
85 pqsA PA0996 secondary metabolite biosynthetic process (PTN002458530) 9 Not written (review YAML blocked): agent found the cited paper attributes the PA0996 result to another study Node is the family root; a child node swaps terms between PqsA and FadD22 pending
86 lhpL PA1255 4-hydroxyproline epimerase activity (PTN002433936) 9 WRONG: Swiss-Prot records experimentally that it has no 4-hydroxyproline epimerase activity; it is a trans-3-hydroxy-L-proline dehydratase; PAO1's real epimerase is PA1268 Unsupported: repoint P, G
87 motB PA4953 bacterial-type flagellum-dependent swarming motility (PTN001251133) 9 OVER-SPECIFIC: motAB single mutant swarms normally; only the motAB motCD double fails Swarming is a lifestyle phenotype, not propagable; repoint to flagellum-dependent motility P (x2), G
88 dctP PA5167 C4-dicarboxylate transport (PTN002121312) 9 SOUND Sound: unlike the DctQ node this is a binding-protein clade none
89 pilT PA0395 ATP hydrolysis activity (PTN002020799) 8 SOUND (purified enzyme, motif mutants) Sound P (a non-seed located_in pilus row)
90 ptrB PA0612 positive regulation of secondary metabolite biosynthetic process (PTN002215317) 8 WRONG: full text shows PtrB represses type III secretion; no secondary-metabolite phenotype Unsupported: delete P, G
91 PA1341 PA1341 L-glutamate import (PTN004745596) 7 SOUND (partial growth defect, corroborated) Sound none
92 znuC PA5500 response to zinc ion (PTN001952271) 7 INDIRECT: EDTA growth defect of the importer ATPase; zinc sensing is Zur's Repoint to zinc import (~1,455 GOA rows) P, G, UniProt
93 pslC PA2233 single-species biofilm formation (PTN002463206) 7 INDIRECT: deletion phenotype coded IDA Unsupported: other leaves are glycosyltransferases for O-antigen, ExoU, flagellin glycans P, G
94 PA4521 PA4521 response to antibiotic (PTN002214697) 7 UNVERIFIABLE (abstract reports only ampD complementation) AmpE's role contested; E. coli leaf has no AmpR G
95 fimU PA4550 type IV pilus (PTN008624060) 7 SOUND Sound none on seed
96 phnB PA1002 phenazine biosynthetic process (PTN000230115) 7 INDIRECT: anthranilate feeds PQS, which induces the phz operons; PhzE makes the phenazine anthranilate Unsupported; a TrpGD fusion artefact also removed G (x2)
97 PA5359 PA5359 alkane catabolic process (PTN002217427) 7 UNVERIFIABLE; paper characterises AlkB/Rub genes and PA5359 is a 151-aa lipoprotein (likely wrong gene, perhaps PA5349) Node is a lipoprotein-repeat family including a tomato protein P, G
98 mucB PA0764 regulation of polysaccharide biosynthetic process (PTN002215378) 7 SOUND for MucB (alginate via AlgU) OVER-SPECIFIC: the other 6 leaves are RseB orthologs that regulate sigmaE, not polysaccharides G
99 pfeA PA2688 enterobactin transport and transporter activity (PTN000763909) 6 SOUND Sound G (colicin row)
100 PA1340 PA1340 L-glutamine transport (PTN000764525) 6 WRONG: the seed paper is a P. putida study; PA1340 was not tested Node is a GltK glutamate/aspartate clade P, G
101 PA4505 PA4505 dipeptide transmembrane transporter activity (PTN000656114) 6 SOUND claim; operon deletion coded IDA Sound: node holds only DppD orthologs P
102 PA5208 PA5208 bacterial-type flagellum-dependent swarming motility (PTN002194937) 5 INDIRECT: transposon-screen hit with a growth defect; protein is PhoU-like Delete: leaves include non-flagellated Haemophilus and Coxiella P, G
103 phzC1 PA4212 phenazine biosynthetic process (PTN000481936) 5 SOUND (phz-operon DAH7P synthase) Node also holds housekeeping DAH7P synthases (incl. PAO1 PA2843), which now carry phenazine biosynthesis G
104 lasI PA1432 signal transduction (PTN002217335) 5 WRONG: a signal synthase is not part of signal transduction (receiver-side); quorum sensing fits; genetic evidence coded IDA Repoint node to quorum sensing (all 5 leaves are LuxI-family synthases) P, G
105 PA3697 PA3697 regulation of nitric oxide metabolic process (PTN002422332) 5 INDIRECT: only fhp promoter induction was lost; NO metabolism not measured Withdraw: ~175 GOA IBA rows cite this node P, G
106 mucD PA0766 periplasmic space (PTN002342204) 5 SOUND Sound P (signal transduction row)
107 eddB PA3909 DNA catabolic process (PTN001684760) 3 SOUND (secreted DNase) Sound none
108 pelA PA3064 deacetylase activity (PTN002441861) 3 SOUND (purified protein, active-site mutants) Other two leaves look too short to contain the deacetylase domain G
109 PA2403 PA2403 siderophore biosynthetic process 2 Not written (agent stopped): gene is FpvG, which releases iron from ferripyoverdine, so pyoverdine biosynthesis looks wrong or indirect pending pending

Not completed

The review files for pvdE, pqsA and PA2403 were not written: the agent's write
of each review YAML was blocked by a safety classifier (pvdE, pqsA), and the
agent stopped before PA2403. pvdE's notes, seed assessment and node analysis
are committed. The research findings for the other two:

Patterns

These are catalogued for PAINT as pattern 17 of IBA_REVIEW, next to the closely related pattern 16 (a phenotype-derived molecular function as an IBD seed, worked through on the same ccmC node from the Shewanella side).

Results: tier 2 (nodes with other seeds)

Tier 2 is the 289 PAO1 proteins whose PseudoCAP-supported node terms also have
other seeds, so a wrong seed does not by itself sink the IBD. 284 are reviewed;
the five Xcp/Hxc secretion genes below are not. Together they cover 342
seedings and 43,061 leaf IBAs (reference-proteome counts, so lower bounds).

Most seeds hold up, and most nodes stand on their other seeds, which is the
expected result for this tier: the question here is less "does the IBD
survive" than "is the PseudoCAP row itself right". The reviews record 156
PseudoCAP defects (60 CONFIRMED, 70 PROBABLE, 26 SUSPECTED) on 130 of the 284
genes, 41 for PAINT/GO Central (11, 26, 4), 10 for UniProt and 1 elsewhere.
By kind, the PseudoCAP defects are 77 wrong term, 43 wrong evidence code, 22
wrong reference, 6 wrong gene product and 6 wrong qualifier.

Seeds that are wrong

Eleven seed rows are about something other than the gene they sit on, and all
are CONFIRMED from the text:

Gene What the seed says What the paper shows
PA3933 (BetT2) four choline-transport rows the experiments are on BetT3 (PA5291), and PA5291 carries two of BetT2's glycine-betaine rows in exchange
PA5134 signal transduction, cell wall biogenesis (IDA) a Staphylococcus aureus CtpA paper
dadA2 D-amino-acid dehydrogenase a P. putida AauRS paper that never mentions the gene
folP dihydropteroate synthase (IDA) purification of the native E. coli enzymes
pvdJ pyoverdine synthesis (IMP) the mutant is P. syringae pvdJ
vgrG1b Hcp secretion (IMP) the cited paper reports the mutant secretes normally
opdP, wspR, PA4332, spuI, PA0949 various the cited paper has no experiment on that gene (PA4332's is an arsenate-resistance study)

In each case the term itself is usually still true on other evidence, so the
row is kept and the reference or evidence code is corrected rather than the
claim withdrawn.

Node terms that do not fit the clade

41 PAINT defects, the 11 CONFIRMED ones being:

The PROBABLE ones repeat tier-1 shapes: a term that suits one subfamily placed
at a family root (PA4088, PA1611 and pfeS for histidine phosphotransfer
activity on kinases with no HPt domain, liuE, speE2, ligD, arcC, PA2077,
PA2127, cupA3), a location that does not hold across the clade (wspR, azu),
and a catalytic term given to a non-catalytic subunit (parC's ATP binding,
rpoS's RNA polymerase activity).

Patterns new in tier 2

Not completed (tier 2)

xcpT, xcpU, PA0681 (HxcT), PA0685 (HxcQ) and xqhA are fetched but unreviewed:
the agent's draft was stopped by a safety classifier. Its analysis, which is
not in any review file, found the tier-1 Xcp pattern again (the 1998 review
PMID:9818381 cited as IDA, which should be TAS) and judged both nodes sound.
The algC audit in the same batch also went unwritten; it found the
PMID:22513190 IMP seed to be an indirect phenotype, since that paper measures
polysaccharide output and never assays phosphomannomutase.

Plan

  1. ~~Review every tier 1 gene.~~ Done except for writing the pqsA, PA2403 and
    pvdE review files.
  2. Reconcile small inconsistencies between reviews: xcpX's complex row
    (PMID:9466253) has no reference defect, while the similar xcpW and xcpV rows
    (PMID:8331069) do.
  3. Send the PseudoCAP and PAINT reports upstream, starting with the 21
    withdraw-or-repoint cases. The PAINT report now names a target node for each
    relocatable IBD (see "Checked against the tree").
  4. ~~Tier 2 (289 proteins that share each node with other seeds).~~ Done for
    284; the five Xcp/Hxc genes above still need review files.
  5. Reconcile tier-2 inconsistencies between parallel batches: MODIFY versus
    TOO_GENERAL for the same general term (rpoS against algU/pvdS; wbpE against
    wbpD/wbpY; nrdA against nrdJa), whether an IDA code resting on a mutant
    phenotype is worth a defect (PA1014 filed one, migA and wapR did not), and
    the braC/braG disagreement over D-alanine transport, where only the braC
    review used the ITC paper. The np20 review also judges its pyocyanin seed an
    indirect phenotype, where the earlier fur review called the same seed
    reasonable.
  6. The rest of the PseudoCAP corpus (2,069 rows on PAO1 in QuickGO),
    prioritising IMP rows on molecular-function terms.

Re-run the builder when PAINT or QuickGO data change; it only re-downloads
files missing from .cache/paint/, so delete that folder to refresh.