All families / PF02577
PF02577: BFN_dom
Bifunctional nuclease domain
- Curation status
- SEEDED
- Seed status
- EX DUF
- Characterization
- UNSCORED
Grounding
PF02577: Bifunctional nuclease domain
IPR003729: integrated entry for Bifunctional nuclease domain
Source description
This entry represents the bifunctional nuclease (BFN) domain which is specific to bacteria and plant organisms. It has both RNase and DNase activities [InterPro reference PUB00057454]. The dimer of the BFN domain forms a wedge, each monomer being a basic triangular shape. The BFN domain is composed of an eight-stranded, distorted beta-sheet consisting of a four-stranded antiparallel beta-sheet, and a four-stranded mixed beta-sheet. This domain can be found in M. tuberculosis Carbon monoxide resistance (Cor) proteins. Cor consists entirely of this domain with homologues in a variety of organisms, including most mycobacteria, Bacteroides sp., Chlamydia sp., Streptomyces sp., and Rhodococcussp. One of the homologs from Oryza minuta protein OmBBD was reported to exhibit DNase and RNAse activity in vitro [InterPro reference PUB00057454]. OmBBD carries a C-terminal UvrB domain that is absent in the mycobacterial sequences. UvrB is one component of the UvrABC endonuclease system. Hence, it was proposed that OmBBD's observed nuclease activity may come not from this domain but from an interaction of the C-terminal UvrB with the catalytic UvrC nuclease [InterPro reference PUB00109344].
Evidence and references
- InterPro entry and its literature references. PUB identifiers are internal InterPro references, not PubMed identifiers. Unresolved citations link to the originating entry.
- Frozen description source: InterPro/Pfam API
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
3 verified sequence examples. FASTA
| UniProt | Protein / organism | Sequence | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q5N8J3 | Bifunctional nuclease 1 Oryza sativa subsp. japonica | 331 aa; version 1 UniProt 2026_03 | UNIPROT FETCH1 sibling references |
| Q93VH2 | Bifunctional nuclease 2 Arabidopsis thaliana | 329 aa; version 1 UniProt 2026_03 | UNIPROT FETCH |
| Q9FWS6 | Bifunctional nuclease 1 Arabidopsis thaliana | 325 aa; version 1 UniProt 2026_03 | UNIPROT FETCH9 sibling references
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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
- 9,018
- matches
- 9,019
- proteomes
- 7,423
- taxa
- 11,314
- structures
- 2
- alphafold models
- 6,182
- domain architectures
- 42
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
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.