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PF08768: THAP4_heme-bd

THAP4-like, heme-binding beta-barrel domain

Curation status
SEEDED
Seed status
EX DUF
Characterization
UNSCORED

Grounding

PF08768: THAP4-like, heme-binding beta-barrel domain
IPR014878: integrated entry for THAP4-like, heme-binding beta-barrel domain

Source description

This domain can be found in THAP4 from mammals and At1g79260 from Arabidopsis. THAP4 catalyzes the heme-based conversion of peroxynitrite into nitrate-NO3- in vitro [InterPro reference PUB00095798]. At1g79260 is a nitrophorin-like heme-binding protein that may reversibly bind nitric oxide (NO) and be involved in NO transport [InterPro reference PUB00063678]. This entry also includes the beta-barrel domain of Caenorhabditis elegans protein male abnormal 7 (Mab-7) which plays an important role in determining body shape and sensory ray morphology [InterPro reference PUB00095799]. Nitrobindins (Nbs), constituting a heme-protein family spanning from bacteria to Homo sapiens, display an all-beta-barrel structural organisation. Proteins containing this domain are putatively related to fatty acid-binding proteins (FABPs) [InterPro reference PUB00040845].

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
O64527Peroxynitrite isomerase Rv2717c
Arabidopsis thaliana
166 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
4 sibling references
Q09244Uncharacterized protein C28H8.5
Caenorhabditis elegans
302 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
3 sibling references
Q6P3Z3Peroxynitrite isomerase THAP4
Mus musculus
569 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
7 sibling references
Q8WY91Peroxynitrite isomerase THAP4
Homo sapiens
577 aa; version 2
UniProt 2026_03
PTM REGISTRY MIRROR
8 sibling references
Q95Q39Protein male abnormal 7
Caenorhabditis elegans
287 aa; version 2
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
7,499
matches
7,560
proteomes
5,589
taxa
9,588
structures
16
alphafold models
5,205
domain architectures
73

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.