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PF01868: RNase_P-MRP_p29

Ribonuclease P/MRP, subunit p29

Curation status
SEEDED
Seed status
EX DUF
Characterization
UNSCORED

Grounding

PF01868: Ribonuclease P/MRP, subunit p29
IPR002730: integrated entry for Ribonuclease P/MRP, subunit p29

Source description

This family consists of several archaeal and eukaryotic proteins. The archaeal proteins are found to be expressed within ribosomal operons and several of the sequences are described as ribonuclease P protein subunit p29 proteins [InterPro reference PUB00042726,InterPro reference PUB00028005]. The structure of the RNase P subunit, Rpp29, from Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum has been determined. Mth Rpp29 is a member of the oligonucleotide/oligosaccharide binding fold family. It contains a structured beta-barrel core and unstructured N- and C-terminal extensions bearing several highly conserved amino acid residues that could be involved in RNA contacts in the protein-RNA complex [InterPro reference PUB00028005]. Rpp29 catalyses the endonucleolytic cleavage of RNA, removing 5'-extranucleotides from tRNA precursor. It interacts with the Rpp25 and Pop5 subunits.

Evidence and references

Source descriptions and links are provenance, not independent functional validation.

Evidence counts: not scored.

Curated functional assertions

No curated functional assertions supplied.

Protein sequence examples

5 verified sequence examples. FASTA

UniProtProtein / organismSequenceProvenance
O95707Ribonuclease P protein subunit p29
Homo sapiens
220 aa; version 2
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
5 sibling references
P38336RNases MRP/P 32.9 kDa subunit
Saccharomyces cerevisiae (strain ATCC 204508 / S288c)
279 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
11 sibling references
Q57903Ribonuclease P protein component 1
Methanocaldococcus jannaschii (strain ATCC 43067 / DSM 2661 / JAL-1 / JCM 10045 / NBRC 100440)
95 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
PTM REGISTRY MIRROR
11 sibling references
Q9CR08Ribonuclease P protein subunit p29
Mus musculus
221 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
4 sibling references
Q9ZW76Ribonuclease MRP protein subunit POP4
Arabidopsis thaliana
296 aa; version 2
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
4 sibling references

Pfam membership is not functional evidence. Whole-protein sequences do not establish domain boundaries. A coverage gap here is not absence from UniProt.

Sequences and metadata: UniProt Consortium, CC BY 4.0.

Domain matches

No residue-level domain match evidence is available in this build. Structure and AlphaFold counters do not supply coordinates or establish function.

Snapshot counters

proteins
4,328
matches
4,328
proteomes
3,725
taxa
9,455
structures
19
alphafold models
3,775
domain architectures
51

Classification basis

pfam previous unknown name

No scoring reasons supplied.

Related Mech records

This family joined the worklist after the frozen cross-Mech scan, so other Mechs were not searched for it. Missing links here are not evidence that other Mechs lack it; rows shown come from mentions of a former DUF/UPF name.

No cross-Mech examples are present in the supplied snapshot.

Curation history and reviews

No retained curation events supplied.

No retained review supplied.

Record source

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Status and evidence

Seed status
A name-based classification of frozen InterPro/Pfam metadata. UNKNOWN CANDIDATE means the metadata explicitly says the function is unknown. KNOWN HISTORICAL DUF means a DUF name matched without that wording; this heuristic is not proof of a known function and does not establish experimental characterization. EX DUF means Pfam renamed the family away from a DUF/UPF name, as recorded in Pfam's previous identifiers; a rename usually follows published work on some members but is naming history, not proof of function for every member. Some EX DUF families' current names or descriptions still say the function is unknown; their classification basis lists this, and scoring does not treat them as characterized. FALSE POSITIVE TEXT HIT means the naming rules did not match.
Characterization
A separate evidence-scoring result. UNSCORED means no score has been calculated; it is not evidence that the family lacks a known function. Missing scores are not negative evidence. PARTIALLY CHARACTERIZED has partial support; KNOWN HISTORICAL DUF can inherit the seed label or reflect a known-function signal. Neither label implies experimental validation.
Evidence counts
Source-specific signals, not unique proteins, publications, or confidence scores. Known counts Rhea reactions and experimentally supported GO molecular-function annotations. Partial counts functional/domain assignments. Context counts structural, environmental, orthology, interaction and neighborhood signals; context alone does not assign function. Repeated annotations may not be independent.
Curation status
Reported separately from seed classification and characterization. SNAPSHOT ONLY means no curated metadata was supplied for this build. SEEDED denotes a source-derived record, not an expert-reviewed functional claim.
Missing counts
Not available means the source did not supply that counter. A zero is a reported count. Not scored means evidence counts are unavailable.