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PF09495: DUF2462

Protein of unknown function (DUF2462)

Curation status
SEEDED
Seed status
UNKNOWN CANDIDATE
Characterization
UNSCORED

Grounding

PF09495: Protein of unknown function (DUF2462)
IPR019034: integrated entry for Protein of unknown function (DUF2462)

Source description

This protein is highly conserved, but its function is unknown. It can be isolated from HeLa cell nucleoli and is found to be homologous with Leydig cell tumour protein whose function is unknown [1, supplementary Table I].

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
Q05310Leydig cell tumor 10 kDa protein
Rattus norvegicus
93 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
1 sibling references
Q3E747Uncharacterized protein YLR363W-A
Saccharomyces cerevisiae (strain ATCC 204508 / S288c)
85 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
1 sibling references
Q9UNZ5Leydig cell tumor 10 kDa protein homolog
Homo sapiens
99 aa; version 1
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
2,773
matches
2,783
proteomes
2,494
taxa
6,695
structures
7
alphafold models
2,360
domain architectures
42

Classification basis

short name matches duf; name says unknown function; description says unknown function

No scoring reasons supplied.

Related Mech records

FamilyMechRecordProteinLink basis
DUF2462 (PF09495)ProteinTraitsMechProtein of unknown function (DUF2462)Q05310
Leydig cell tumor 10 kDa protein
canonical example family classification
DUF2462 (PF09495)ProteinTraitsMechProtein of unknown function (DUF2462)Q3E747
Uncharacterized protein YLR363W-A
canonical example family classification
DUF2462 (PF09495)ProteinTraitsMechProtein of unknown function (DUF2462)Q9UNZ5
Leydig cell tumor 10 kDa protein homolog
canonical example family classification
DUF2462 (PF09495)ProteinTraitsMechProtein of unknown function (DUF2462)
trait identifier

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.