Summary
Ankyrin repeat superfamily
The ankyrin repeat is a short sequence region that is about 30-34 amino-acids in length. Multiple copies of the repeat composed of two beta strands and two alpha helices combine to form long arrays. In general these repeats are involved in protein-protein interactions. This superfamily also includes some families that are arrays of several repeats.
This clan contains 7 families and the total number of domains in the clan is 134027. The clan was built by A Bateman.
Literature references
- Sedgwick SG, Smerdon SJ;, Trends Biochem Sci. 1999;24:311-316.: The ankyrin repeat: a diversity of interactions on a common structural framework. PUBMED:10431175 EPMC:10431175
- Mosavi LK, Cammett TJ, Desrosiers DC, Peng ZY;, Protein Sci. 2004;13:1435-1448.: The ankyrin repeat as molecular architecture for protein recognition. PUBMED:15152081 EPMC:15152081
- Li J, Mahajan A, Tsai MD;, Biochemistry. 2006;45:15168-15178.: Ankyrin repeat: a unique motif mediating protein-protein interactions. PUBMED:17176038 EPMC:17176038
Members
This clan contains the following 7 member families:
Ank Ank_2 Ank_3 Ank_4 Ank_5 DUF3420 DUF3447External database links
| SCOP: | 48403 |
Domain organisation
Below is a listing of the unique domain organisations or architectures from this clan. More...
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Alignments
The table below shows the number of occurrences of each domain throughout the sequence database. More...
| Pfam family | Num. domains | Alignment |
|---|---|---|
| Ank_2 (PF12796) | 110723 (82.6%) | View |
| Ank (PF00023) | 8812 (6.6%) | View |
| Ank_4 (PF13637) | 7425 (5.5%) | View |
| Ank_5 (PF13857) | 5157 (3.8%) | View |
| DUF3447 (PF11929) | 1243 (0.9%) | View |
| Ank_3 (PF13606) | 446 (0.3%) | View |
| DUF3420 (PF11900) | 221 (0.2%) | View |
| Total: 7 | Total: 134027 | Clan alignment |
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Family relationships
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Species distribution
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Interactions
Structures
For those sequences which have a structure in the Protein DataBank, we use the mapping between UniProt, PDB and Pfam coordinate systems from the MSD group, to allow us to map Pfam domains onto UniProt three-dimensional structures. The table below shows the mapping between the Pfam families in this clan, the corresponding UniProt entries, and the region of the three-dimensional structures that are available for that sequence.
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