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PF04224: DUF417

Protein of unknown function, DUF417

Curation status
SEEDED
Seed status
UNKNOWN CANDIDATE
Characterization
UNSCORED

Grounding

PF04224: Protein of unknown function, DUF417
IPR007339: integrated entry for Protein of unknown function, DUF417

Source description

This family of uncharacterised integral membrane proteins appears to be restricted to proteobacteria. These proteins are related to the DoxX family PF07681 (Pfam entry). Members of this family form a confident homodimeric structure, for example UniProtKB:A0A4R5FQM0 iPTM=0.94.

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

3 verified sequence examples. FASTA

UniProtProtein / organismSequenceProvenance
P44577Uncharacterized protein HI_0219
Haemophilus influenzae (strain ATCC 51907 / DSM 11121 / KW20 / Rd)
213 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
1 sibling references
P46928Uncharacterized 23.0 kDa protein in purT/mpa1 5'region
Mannheimia haemolytica
211 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
1 sibling references
P75685Inner membrane protein RclC
Escherichia coli (strain K12)
197 aa; version 2
UniProt 2026_03
PTM REGISTRY MIRROR
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
1,971
matches
2,090
proteomes
1,536
taxa
2,351
structures
0
alphafold models
1,271
domain architectures
5

Classification basis

short name matches duf; name says unknown function

No scoring reasons supplied.

Related Mech records

FamilyMechRecordProteinLink basis
DUF417 (PF04224)ProteinTraitsMechresponse to hypochloriteP75685
Inner membrane protein RclC
canonical example family classification
DUF417 (PF04224)ProteinTraitsMechreactive chlorine resistance membrane protein RclCP75685
Inner membrane protein RclC
canonical example family classification
DUF417 (PF04224)ProteinTraitsMechProtein of unknown function, DUF417P44577
Uncharacterized protein HI_0219
canonical example family classification
DUF417 (PF04224)ProteinTraitsMechProtein of unknown function, DUF417P46928
Uncharacterized 23.0 kDa protein in purT/mpa1 5'region
canonical example family classification
DUF417 (PF04224)ProteinTraitsMechProtein of unknown function, DUF417P75685
Inner membrane protein RclC
canonical example family classification
DUF417 (PF04224)ProteinTraitsMechProtein of unknown function, DUF417
trait identifier

Curation history and reviews

No retained curation events supplied.

No retained review supplied.

Record source

data/families/PF04224.yaml
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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.