Summary: Protein of unknown function (DUF493)
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A Domain of unknown function (DUF) is a protein domain that has no characterised function. These families have been collected together in the Pfam database using the prefix DUF followed by a number, with examples being DUF188 and DUF1000. There are now over 3,000 DUF families within the Pfam database representing over 20% of known families.
History
The DUF naming scheme was introduced by Chris Ponting, through the addition of DUF1 and DUF2 to the SMART database.[1] These two domains were found to be widely distributed in bacterial signaling proteins. Subsequently, the functions of these domains were identified and they have since been renamed as the GGDEF domain and EAL domain respectively.
Structure
Structural genomics programmes have attempted to understand the function of DUFs through structure determination. The structures of over 250 DUF families have been solved.[2]
External Links
List of Pfam familes beginning with the letter D, including DUF families
References
- ^ Schultz J, Milpetz F, Bork P, Ponting CP (1998). "SMART, a simple modular architecture research tool: identification of signaling domains". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95 (11): 5857–64. PMC 34487. PMID 9600884.
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This domain is likely to act in a regulatory capacity like PF01842 domains. This domain has a remarkable property in that the C-terminal residue of every protein in the family lies up in the alignment. This suggests that the C-terminal residue plays some important functional role (Bateman A pers obs).
Internal database links
SCOOP: | ACT_4 |
Similarity to PfamA using HHSearch: | ACT_4 |
Domain organisation
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Pfam Clan
This family is a member of clan ACT (CL0070), which has the following description:
These domains are involved in binding to amino-acids and causing allosteric regulation of linked enzyme domains [1]. The relationship between these two families was first noticed in [2].
The clan contains the following 12 members:
ACT ACT_3 ACT_4 ACT_5 ACT_6 ACT_7 ACT_8 ALS_ss_C DUF493 NikR_C NIL Thr_dehydrat_CAlignments
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Curation
Seed source: | COG2921 |
Previous IDs: | none |
Type: | Domain |
Sequence Ontology: | SO:0000417 |
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Kerrison ND |
Number in seed: | 162 |
Number in full: | 2424 |
Average length of the domain: | 82.2 aa |
Average identity of full alignment: | 27 % |
Average coverage of the sequence by the domain: | 74.81 % |
HMM information
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build method: hmmbuild -o /dev/null HMM SEED
search method: hmmsearch -Z 61295632 -E 1000 --cpu 4 HMM pfamseq
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Structures
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