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PF05970: PIF1

PIF1-like helicase

Curation status
SEEDED
Seed status
EX DUF
Characterization
UNSCORED

Grounding

PF05970: PIF1-like helicase
IPR010285: integrated entry for PIF1-like helicase

Source description

This family includes homologues of the PIF1 helicase, which inhibits telomerase activity and is cell cycle regulated [InterPro reference PUB00053693,InterPro reference PUB00053694,InterPro reference PUB00151827,InterPro reference PUB00151828]. This family includes a large number of largely uncharacterised plant proteins. This entry includes a P-loop motif that is involved in nucleotide binding.

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

5 verified sequence examples. FASTA

UniProtProtein / organismSequenceProvenance
P07271ATP-dependent DNA helicase PIF1
Saccharomyces cerevisiae (strain ATCC 204508 / S288c)
859 aa; version 2
UniProt 2026_03
PTM REGISTRY MIRROR
20 sibling references
P38766ATP-dependent DNA helicase RRM3
Saccharomyces cerevisiae (strain ATCC 204508 / S288c)
723 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
PTM REGISTRY MIRROR
8 sibling references
Q57YG0ATP-dependent DNA helicase PIF7
Trypanosoma brucei brucei (strain 927/4 GUTat10.1)
992 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
1 sibling references
Q80SX8ATP-dependent DNA helicase PIF1
Mus musculus
650 aa; version 2
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
10 sibling references
Q9H611ATP-dependent DNA helicase PIF1
Homo sapiens
641 aa; version 2
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
10 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
26,740
matches
27,374
proteomes
5,288
taxa
11,185
structures
37
alphafold models
18,182
domain architectures
1,063

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.