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PF05949: DUF881

Bacterial protein of unknown function (DUF881)

Curation status
SEEDED
Seed status
UNKNOWN CANDIDATE
Characterization
UNSCORED

Grounding

PF05949: Bacterial protein of unknown function (DUF881)
IPR010273: integrated entry for Bacterial protein of unknown function (DUF881)

Source description

This family consists of a series of hypothetical bacterial proteins. One of the family members Q45543 (UniProtKB protein) from Bacillus subtilis is thought to be involved in cell division and sporulation [InterPro reference PUB00011928].

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
C0SPA3UPF0749 protein YlxW
Bacillus subtilis (strain 168)
231 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
PTM REGISTRY MIRROR
3 sibling references
P9WFG2UPF0749 protein MT1873
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (strain CDC 1551 / Oshkosh)
292 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
1 sibling references
P9WFG3UPF0749 protein Rv1825
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (strain ATCC 25618 / H37Rv)
292 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
1 sibling references
Q45544UPF0749 protein YlxX
Bacillus subtilis (strain 168)
235 aa; version 3
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
8,824
matches
8,826
proteomes
3,335
taxa
4,412
structures
1
alphafold models
5,317
domain architectures
6

Classification basis

short name matches duf; name says unknown function

No scoring reasons supplied.

Related Mech records

FamilyMechRecordProteinLink basis
DUF881 (PF05949)ProteinTraitsMechBacterial protein of unknown function (DUF881)C0SPA3
UPF0749 protein YlxW
canonical example family classification
DUF881 (PF05949)ProteinTraitsMechBacterial protein of unknown function (DUF881)P9WFG2
UPF0749 protein MT1873
canonical example family classification
DUF881 (PF05949)ProteinTraitsMechBacterial protein of unknown function (DUF881)P9WFG3
UPF0749 protein Rv1825
canonical example family classification
DUF881 (PF05949)ProteinTraitsMechBacterial protein of unknown function (DUF881)
trait identifier
DUF881 (PF05949)ProteinTraitsMechProtein of unknown function DUF881C0SPA3
UPF0749 protein YlxW
canonical example family classification
DUF881 (PF05949)ProteinTraitsMechProtein of unknown function DUF881Q45544
UPF0749 protein YlxX
canonical example family classification

Curation history and reviews

No retained curation events supplied.

No retained review supplied.

Record source

data/families/PF05949.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.