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PF21726: DUF6862

Family of unknown function (DUF6862)

Curation status
SEEDED
Seed status
UNKNOWN CANDIDATE
Characterization
UNSCORED

Grounding

PF21726: Family of unknown function (DUF6862)
IPR049271: integrated entry for Family of unknown function (DUF6862)

Source description

This entry represents a small domain that is found in a variety of toxin proteins. The precise function of this domain is uncertain. It often follows PF04829 (Pre-toxin domain with VENN motif).

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
A0A1S4NYE3tRNA nuclease CdiA
Escherichia coli (strain STEC_O31)
3253 aa; version 2
UniProt 2026_03
UNIPROT FETCH
2 sibling references
P0DSI1tRNA nuclease CdiA
Escherichia coli (strain NC101)
3289 aa; version 1
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
247
matches
247
proteomes
197
taxa
434
structures
1
alphafold models
76
domain architectures
122

Classification basis

short name matches duf; name says unknown function

No scoring reasons supplied.

Related Mech records

FamilyMechRecordProteinLink basis
DUF6862 (PF21726)ProteinTraitsMechDomain of unknown function DUF6862
trait identifier
DUF6862 (PF21726)ProteinTraitsMechFamily of unknown function (DUF6862)A0A1S4NYE3
tRNA nuclease CdiA
canonical example family classification
DUF6862 (PF21726)ProteinTraitsMechFamily of unknown function (DUF6862)P0DSI1
tRNA nuclease CdiA
canonical example family classification
DUF6862 (PF21726)ProteinTraitsMechFamily of unknown function (DUF6862)
trait identifier
DUF6862 (PF21726)ProteinTraitsMechHemagglutinin repeatA0A1S4NYE3
tRNA nuclease CdiA
canonical example family classification

Curation history and reviews

No retained curation events supplied.

No retained review supplied.

Record source

data/families/PF21726.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.