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PF08354: Fas1-AflB-like_hel

Fatty acid synthase subunit beta/Fas1-like, helical

Curation status
SEEDED
Seed status
EX DUF
Characterization
UNSCORED

Grounding

PF08354: Fatty acid synthase subunit beta/Fas1-like, helical
IPR013565: integrated entry for Fatty acid synthase subunit beta/Fas1-like, helical

Source description

This domain has been identified in fungi and bacteria. It is found in fatty acid synthase beta subunit from fungi, including Fas1 from yeasts and aflB from Aspergillus parasiticus. This is an inserted helical domain, whose function is not clear, and is found together with the MaoC-like domain (PF01575 (Pfam entry)) and the acyltransferase domain (PF00698 (Pfam entry)) [InterPro reference PUB00016843]. Fas1 is a fatty acid synthetase that catalyses the formation of long-chain fatty acids from acetyl-CoA, malonyl-CoA and NADPH [InterPro reference PUB00006544]. AflB is part of the gene cluster that mediates the biosynthesis of aflatoxins [InterPro reference PUB00083132].

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
A0A1C8AX29Fatty acid synthase beta subunit pigK
Monascus ruber
2014 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
1 sibling references
M2XHU6Fatty acid synthase beta subunit hexB
Dothistroma septosporum (strain NZE10 / CBS 128990)
1904 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
4 sibling references
P07149Fatty acid synthase subunit beta
Saccharomyces cerevisiae (strain ATCC 204508 / S288c)
2051 aa; version 2
UniProt 2026_03
PTM REGISTRY MIRROR
6 sibling references
P34731Fatty acid synthase subunit beta
Candida albicans
2037 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
1 sibling references
Q2TXG3Fatty acid synthase subunit beta
Aspergillus oryzae (strain ATCC 42149 / RIB 40)
2026 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
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
3,260
matches
3,333
proteomes
2,302
taxa
4,165
structures
45
alphafold models
205
domain architectures
233

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.