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PF01918: Alba

Alba

Curation status
SEEDED
Seed status
EX DUF
Characterization
UNSCORED

Grounding

PF01918: Alba
IPR002775: integrated entry for Alba

Source description

Alba is a novel chromosomal protein that coats archaeal DNA without compacting it.

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

9 verified sequence examples. FASTA

UniProtProtein / organismSequenceProvenance
F0NHH1DNA/RNA-binding protein Alba 1
Saccharolobus islandicus (strain REY15A)
97 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
1 sibling references
O22969Uncharacterized protein At2g34160
Arabidopsis thaliana
130 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
1 sibling references
P53218Ribonucleases P/MRP protein subunit POP6
Saccharomyces cerevisiae (strain ATCC 204508 / S288c)
158 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
11 sibling references
Q57665DNA/RNA-binding protein Alba
Methanocaldococcus jannaschii (strain ATCC 43067 / DSM 2661 / JAL-1 / JCM 10045 / NBRC 100440)
87 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
PTM REGISTRY MIRROR
4 sibling references
Q8IAX8DNA/RNA-binding protein ALBA1
Plasmodium falciparum (isolate 3D7)
248 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
1 sibling references
Q8IDN4DNA/RNA-binding protein ALBA2
Plasmodium falciparum (isolate 3D7)
211 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
1 sibling references
Q8IJX8Endonuclease ALBA3
Plasmodium falciparum (isolate 3D7)
107 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
3 sibling references
Q91WE3Ribonuclease P protein subunit p25
Mus musculus
199 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
3 sibling references
Q9BUL9Ribonuclease P protein subunit p25
Homo sapiens
199 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
PTM REGISTRY MIRROR
5 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
8,285
matches
8,303
proteomes
2,523
taxa
7,180
structures
36
alphafold models
7,010
domain architectures
155

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

data/families/PF01918.yaml
Family YAML in this build

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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.