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PF12362: DUF3646

DNA polymerase III gamma and tau subunits C terminal

Curation status
SEEDED
Seed status
KNOWN HISTORICAL DUF
Characterization
UNSCORED

Grounding

PF12362: DNA polymerase III gamma and tau subunits C terminal
IPR022107: integrated entry for DNA polymerase III gamma and tau subunits C terminal

Source description

This domain family is found in bacteria, and is approximately 120 amino acids in length. The family is found in association with PF00004 (Pfam entry). The proteins in this family are frequently annotated as the gamma and tau subunits of DNA polymerase III, however there is little accompanying literature to back this up.

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
2,463
matches
2,463
proteomes
2,459
taxa
3,456
structures
0
alphafold models
1,646
domain architectures
6

Classification basis

short name matches duf

No scoring reasons supplied.

Related Mech records

FamilyMechRecordProteinLink basis
DUF3646 (PF12362)ProteinTraitsMechDNA polymerase III, subunit gamma/ tau, C-terminal
trait identifier
DUF3646 (PF12362)ProteinTraitsMechDNA polymerase III gamma and tau subunits C terminal
trait identifier

Curation history and reviews

No retained curation events supplied.

No retained review supplied.

Record source

data/families/PF12362.yaml
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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.