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PF11965: DUF3479

Domain of unknown function (DUF3479)

Curation status
SEEDED
Seed status
UNKNOWN CANDIDATE
Characterization
UNSCORED

Grounding

PF11965: Domain of unknown function (DUF3479)
IPR022571: integrated entry for Domain of unknown function (DUF3479)

Source description

This presumed domain is functionally uncharacterised. This domain is found in bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes. This domain is about 160 amino acids in length. This domain is found associated with PF02514 (Pfam entry).

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
B8ANF1Magnesium-chelatase subunit ChlH, chloroplastic
Oryza sativa subsp. indica
1387 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
2 sibling references
Q10M50Magnesium-chelatase subunit ChlH, chloroplastic
Oryza sativa subsp. japonica
1387 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
2 sibling references
Q9FNB0Magnesium-chelatase subunit ChlH, chloroplastic
Arabidopsis thaliana
1381 aa; version 1
UniProt 2026_03
PTM REGISTRY MIRROR
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
1,930
matches
1,931
proteomes
1,330
taxa
3,066
structures
5
alphafold models
710
domain architectures
23

Classification basis

short name matches duf; name says unknown function; domain of unknown function

No scoring reasons supplied.

Related Mech records

FamilyMechRecordProteinLink basis
DUF3479 (PF11965)ProteinTraitsMechmagnesium chelatase complexQ9FNB0
Magnesium-chelatase subunit ChlH, chloroplastic
canonical example family classification
DUF3479 (PF11965)ProteinTraitsMechmagnesium chelatase activityQ9FNB0
Magnesium-chelatase subunit ChlH, chloroplastic
canonical example family classification
DUF3479 (PF11965)ProteinTraitsMechmagnesium chelatase subunit HQ9FNB0
Magnesium-chelatase subunit ChlH, chloroplastic
canonical example family classification
DUF3479 (PF11965)ProteinTraitsMechmagnesium chelatase subunit HQ9FNB0
Magnesium-chelatase subunit ChlH, chloroplastic
canonical example family classification
DUF3479 (PF11965)ProteinTraitsMechCobN_likeQ9FNB0
Magnesium-chelatase subunit ChlH, chloroplastic
canonical example family classification
DUF3479 (PF11965)ProteinTraitsMechCobN/magnesium chelataseQ9FNB0
Magnesium-chelatase subunit ChlH, chloroplastic
canonical example family classification
DUF3479 (PF11965)ProteinTraitsMechMagnesium chelatase, subunit H, N-terminalQ9FNB0
Magnesium-chelatase subunit ChlH, chloroplastic
canonical example family classification
DUF3479 (PF11965)ProteinTraitsMechMagnesium chelatase, subunit H, N-terminal
trait identifier
DUF3479 (PF11965)ProteinTraitsMechCobN/Magnesium ChelataseB8ANF1
Magnesium-chelatase subunit ChlH, chloroplastic
canonical example family classification
DUF3479 (PF11965)ProteinTraitsMechCobN/Magnesium ChelataseQ10M50
Magnesium-chelatase subunit ChlH, chloroplastic
canonical example family classification
DUF3479 (PF11965)ProteinTraitsMechCobN/Magnesium ChelataseQ9FNB0
Magnesium-chelatase subunit ChlH, chloroplastic
canonical example family classification
DUF3479 (PF11965)ProteinTraitsMechDomain of unknown function (DUF3479)B8ANF1
Magnesium-chelatase subunit ChlH, chloroplastic
canonical example family classification
DUF3479 (PF11965)ProteinTraitsMechDomain of unknown function (DUF3479)Q10M50
Magnesium-chelatase subunit ChlH, chloroplastic
canonical example family classification
DUF3479 (PF11965)ProteinTraitsMechDomain of unknown function (DUF3479)Q9FNB0
Magnesium-chelatase subunit ChlH, chloroplastic
canonical example family classification
DUF3479 (PF11965)ProteinTraitsMechDomain of unknown function (DUF3479)
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.