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PF01954: AF2212-like

AF2212-like

Curation status
SEEDED
Seed status
EX DUF
Characterization
UNSCORED

Grounding

PF01954: AF2212-like
IPR008203: integrated entry for AF2212-like

Source description

This family includes short bacterial and archaebacterial proteins thought to be antitoxin components of the a type II toxin-antitoxin (TA) system. This entry includes AF2212 from Archaeoglobus fulgidus which has sequence similarity with the AbrB superfamily of DNA-binding proteins, identified as antitoxins [InterPro reference PUB00056596,InterPro reference PUB00056164]. The secondary structure of AF2212 revealed at least three beta-strands that are most conserved in other AbrB superfamily members [InterPro reference PUB00056164].

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

4 verified sequence examples. FASTA

UniProtProtein / organismSequenceProvenance
O29184Putative antitoxin AF_1079
Archaeoglobus fulgidus (strain ATCC 49558 / DSM 4304 / JCM 9628 / NBRC 100126 / VC-16)
28 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
1 sibling references
Q58385Putative antitoxin MJ0975
Methanocaldococcus jannaschii (strain ATCC 43067 / DSM 2661 / JAL-1 / JCM 10045 / NBRC 100440)
64 aa; version 2
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
2 sibling references
Q60265Putative antitoxin MJECL31
Methanocaldococcus jannaschii (strain ATCC 43067 / DSM 2661 / JAL-1 / JCM 10045 / NBRC 100440)
65 aa; version 2
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
3 sibling references
Q9V0B8Putative antitoxin PYRAB08720
Pyrococcus abyssi (strain GE5 / Orsay)
70 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
1 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
440
matches
440
proteomes
202
taxa
642
structures
1
alphafold models
371
domain architectures
2

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.