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PF14220: DUF4329

Domain of unknown function (DUF4329)

Curation status
SEEDED
Seed status
UNKNOWN CANDIDATE
Characterization
UNSCORED

Grounding

PF14220: Domain of unknown function (DUF4329)
IPR025479: integrated entry for Domain of unknown function (DUF4329)

Source description

This domain is functionally uncharacterised. It is found in bacteria and eukaryotes, and is approximately 130 amino acids in length. It is often found in association with PF05593 (Pfam entry) and PF03527 (Pfam entry). There is a single completely conserved residue D and a highly conserved HTH motif which may be functionally important.

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

2 verified sequence examples. FASTA

UniProtProtein / organismSequenceProvenance
P16917Protein RhsB
Escherichia coli (strain K12)
1411 aa; version 4
UniProt 2026_03
PTM REGISTRY MIRROR
2 sibling references
P16919Protein RhsD
Escherichia coli (strain K12)
1426 aa; version 3
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
394
matches
399
proteomes
347
taxa
727
structures
0
alphafold models
201
domain architectures
49

Classification basis

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

No scoring reasons supplied.

Related Mech records

FamilyMechRecordProteinLink basis
DUF4329 (PF14220)ProteinTraitsMechRhsB/RhsD, C-terminal domain
trait identifier
DUF4329 (PF14220)ProteinTraitsMechDomain of unknown function (DUF4329)P16917
Protein RhsB
canonical example family classification
DUF4329 (PF14220)ProteinTraitsMechDomain of unknown function (DUF4329)P16919
Protein RhsD
canonical example family classification
DUF4329 (PF14220)ProteinTraitsMechDomain of unknown function (DUF4329)
trait identifier

Curation history and reviews

No retained curation events supplied.

No retained review supplied.

Record source

data/families/PF14220.yaml
Family YAML in this build

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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.