Summary
4-helical cytokine superfamily
Cytokines are regulatory peptides that can be produced by various cells for communicating and orchestrating the large multicellular system. Cytokines are key mediators of hematopoiesis, immunity, allergy, inflammation, tissue remodeling, angiogenesis, and embryonic development [2]. This superfamily includes both the long and short chain helical cytokines.
This clan contains 22 families and the total number of domains in the clan is 5160. The clan was built by A Bateman.
Literature references
- Hill EE, Morea V, Chothia C; , J Mol Biol 2002;322:205-233.: Sequence conservation in families whose members have little or no sequence similarity: the four-helical cytokines and cytochromes. PUBMED:12215425 EPMC:12215425
- Ouyang S, He F; , J Mol Evol 2003;56:131-136.: Phylogeny of a growth hormone-like cytokine superfamily based upon 3D structure. PUBMED:12574859 EPMC:12574859
Members
This clan contains the following 22 member families:
CNTF EPO_TPO Flt3_lig GM_CSF Hormone_1 IFN-gamma IL10 IL11 IL12 IL13 IL2 IL22 IL3 IL34 IL4 IL5 IL6 Interferon Leptin LIF_OSM PRF SCFExternal database links
| CATH: | 1.20.120.210 1.20.120.200 |
| SCOP: | 47266 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hormone_1 (PF00103) | 1608 (31.2%) | View |
| Interferon (PF00143) | 1000 (19.4%) | View |
| IL10 (PF00726) | 341 (6.6%) | View |
| PRF (PF06875) | 260 (5.0%) | View |
| IL6 (PF00489) | 256 (5.0%) | View |
| IFN-gamma (PF00714) | 229 (4.4%) | View |
| Leptin (PF02024) | 218 (4.2%) | View |
| IL4 (PF00727) | 198 (3.8%) | View |
| IL2 (PF00715) | 151 (2.9%) | View |
| SCF (PF02404) | 137 (2.7%) | View |
| EPO_TPO (PF00758) | 114 (2.2%) | View |
| IL12 (PF03039) | 97 (1.9%) | View |
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| Pfam family | Num. domains | Alignment |
|---|---|---|
| LIF_OSM (PF01291) | 88 (1.7%) | View |
| GM_CSF (PF01109) | 64 (1.2%) | View |
| IL5 (PF02025) | 60 (1.2%) | View |
| Flt3_lig (PF02947) | 56 (1.1%) | View |
| IL11 (PF07400) | 55 (1.1%) | View |
| IL22 (PF14565) | 53 (1.0%) | View |
| CNTF (PF01110) | 48 (0.9%) | View |
| IL13 (PF03487) | 47 (0.9%) | View |
| IL3 (PF02059) | 41 (0.8%) | View |
| IL34 (PF15036) | 39 (0.8%) | View |
| Total: 22 | Total: 5160 | 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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