All families / PF14337
PF14337: Abi_alpha
Abortive infection alpha
- Curation status
- SEEDED
- Seed status
- EX DUF
- Characterization
- UNSCORED
Grounding
PF14337: Abortive infection alpha
IPR025506: integrated entry for Abortive infection alpha
Source description
Enterococci such as Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium are part of the normal human gut microbiota. However they can also be a source of nosocomial infections specially in immunocompromised patients. Virulent bacteriophages, i.e., viruses that infect and obligatorily lyse bacteria might provide alternative options for combating them. Yet, bacterial resistance to phage is taking place in similar fashion to antibiotic resistance. This might be, in part due to temperate phages that are stably associated with their host. They compete for their bacterial host, in addition to repressor-dependent immunity against similar phages, some phage express genes conferring resistance to infection by more or less unrelated phages. They can encode abortive infection (Abi) mechanisms that cause an interruption of invasive phage development and a premature death of the infected bacteria. For instance, E. faecalis V583 prophage 6 confers resistance to the virulent phage Idefix infection mainly due to Abia-alpha protein. This Pfam family corresponds to Abi-alpha protein sequences which is mostly found in prophages, arguing that it is essentially a temperate phage weapon to fight against other phages [InterPro reference PUB00101291].
Evidence and references
- InterPro entry and its literature references. PUB identifiers are internal InterPro references, not PubMed identifiers. Unresolved citations link to the originating entry.
- Frozen description source: InterPro/Pfam API
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
- 1,144
- matches
- 1,144
- proteomes
- 945
- taxa
- 1,811
- structures
- 1
- alphafold models
- 693
- domain architectures
- 2
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.
| Family | Mech | Record | Protein | Link basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abi_alpha (PF14337) | TraitMech | AbiAlpha system | record mentions previous pfam name |
Curation history and reviews
No retained curation events supplied.
No retained review supplied.
Record source
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.