Summary
Cystatin-like superfamily
This superfamily includes cystatins and cathelicidins [1]. The cystatin superfamily comprises cysteine protease inhibitors that play key regulatory roles in protein degradation processes. The progenitor of this superfamily was most probably intracellular and lacked a signal peptide and disulfide bridges, much like the extant Giardia cystatin. A primordial gene duplication produced two ancestral eukaryotic lineages, cystatins and stefins. Stefins - included in Pfam:PF00031 - remain encoded by a single or a small number of genes throughout the eukaryotes, whereas the cystatins have undergone a more complex and dynamic evolution through numerous gene and domain duplications [2].
This clan contains 13 families and the total number of domains in the clan is 15830. The clan was built by A Bateman.
Literature references
- Murzin AG; , J Mol Biol 1993;230:689-694.: Sweet-tasting protein monellin is related to the cystatin family of thiol proteinase inhibitors. PUBMED:8464079 EPMC:8464079
- Kordis D, Turk V;, BMC Evol Biol. 2009;9:266.: Phylogenomic analysis of the cystatin superfamily in eukaryotes and prokaryotes. PUBMED:19919722 EPMC:19919722
Members
This clan contains the following 13 member families:
Cathelicidins Cystatin DUF3889 DUF5590 FTP Latexin Monellin PP1 Spp-24 SQAPI Staphopain_pro YebF YPEBExternal database links
CATH: | 2.20.25.30 |
SCOP: | 54403 |
Domain organisation
Below is a listing of the unique domain organisations or architectures from this clan. More...
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Alignments
The table below shows the number of occurrences of each domain throughout the sequence database. More...
Pfam family | Num. domains | Alignment |
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Cystatin (PF00031) | 6502 (41.1%) | View |
FTP (PF07504) | 3846 (24.3%) | View |
SQAPI (PF16845) | 2372 (15.0%) | View |
YPEB (PF14620) | 747 (4.7%) | View |
Cathelicidins (PF00666) | 603 (3.8%) | View |
DUF5590 (PF17881) | 595 (3.8%) | View |
Latexin (PF06907) | 476 (3.0%) | View |
DUF3889 (PF13028) | 307 (1.9%) | View |
Spp-24 (PF07448) | 271 (1.7%) | View |
YebF (PF13995) | 62 (0.4%) | View |
PP1 (PF07430) | 42 (0.3%) | View |
Staphopain_pro (PF14731) | 7 (0.0%) | View |
Monellin (PF09200) | 0 (0.0%) | View |
Total: 13 | Total: 15830 | Clan alignment |
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Family relationships
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Species distribution
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Structures
For those sequences which have a structure in the Protein DataBank, we use the mapping between UniProt, PDB and Pfam coordinate systems from the MSD group, to allow us to map Pfam domains onto UniProt three-dimensional structures. The table below shows the mapping between the Pfam families in this clan, the corresponding UniProt entries, and the region of the three-dimensional structures that are available for that sequence.
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