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PF10986: ZrgA

ZrgA family zinc uptake protein

Curation status
SEEDED
Seed status
EX DUF
Characterization
UNSCORED

Grounding

PF10986: ZrgA family zinc uptake protein
IPR021253: integrated entry for ZrgA family zinc uptake protein

Source description

This entry represents the ZrgA family of zinc uptake proteins. ZrgA plays a predominant role in zinc acquisition in Vibrio parahaemolyticus and other members of the Vibrionaceae family. The protein is part of the ZrgABCDE system that functions as a zinc transporter [InterPro reference PUB00159002]. ZrgA expression is negatively regulated by the zinc uptake regulator (Zur) and is derepressed under zinc limitation conditions. The gene is part of an operon that includes zrgB (ABC transporter permease), zrgC (ABC transporter ATP-binding protein), zrgD and zrgE. The ZrgA protein contains several conserved motifs potentially involved in zinc binding. The wild type ZrgA can bind up to 10 zinc ions with four high-affinity zinc binding sites [InterPro reference PUB00159005]. The structures of ZrgA from Vibrio cholerae and its homologue, protein PA4063 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, were determined bound to zinc [InterPro reference PUB00159005,InterPro reference PUB00159006]. These proteins adopt an alpha/beta structure consisting of a six-stranded meander beta-sheet and two alpha-helices packed on it with an unique topology.

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

No sibling protein candidate in the scanned commits.

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
1,443
matches
1,522
proteomes
1,386
taxa
2,045
structures
6
alphafold models
869
domain architectures
5

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.