Summary
Peptidase clan AA
This clan contains aspartic peptidases, including the pepsins and retropepsins. These enzymes contains a catalytic dyad composed of two aspartates. In the retropepsins one is provided by each copy of a homodimeric protein, whereas in the pepsin-like peptidases these aspartates come from a single protein composed of two duplicated domains.
This clan contains 14 families and the total number of domains in the clan is 138509. The clan was built by A Bateman.
Members
This clan contains the following 14 member families:
Asp Asp_protease Asp_protease_2 DUF1758 gag-asp_proteas Peptidase_A2B Peptidase_A2E Peptidase_A3 RVP RVP_2 Spuma_A9PTase TAXi_C TAXi_N Zn_proteaseExternal database links
| CATH: | 2.40.70.10 |
| SCOP: | 50630 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| RVP (PF00077) | 124336 (89.8%) | View |
| Asp (PF00026) | 4762 (3.4%) | View |
| Asp_protease_2 (PF13650) | 2359 (1.7%) | View |
| TAXi_N (PF14543) | 1620 (1.2%) | View |
| TAXi_C (PF14541) | 1552 (1.1%) | View |
| RVP_2 (PF08284) | 1125 (0.8%) | View |
| Zn_protease (PF05618) | 1019 (0.7%) | View |
| gag-asp_proteas (PF13975) | 832 (0.6%) | View |
| Asp_protease (PF09668) | 445 (0.3%) | View |
| DUF1758 (PF05585) | 313 (0.2%) | View |
| Peptidase_A3 (PF02160) | 102 (0.1%) | View |
| Spuma_A9PTase (PF03539) | 22 (0.0%) | View |
| Peptidase_A2B (PF12384) | 18 (0.0%) | View |
| Peptidase_A2E (PF12382) | 4 (0.0%) | View |
| Total: 14 | Total: 138509 | Clan alignment |
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Family relationships
This diagram shows the relationships between members of this clan. More...
Species distribution
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Interactions
There are 7 interactions for this clan. More...
| Interacting families | |
|---|---|
| A | B |
| RVP | RVP |
| Zn_protease | Zn_protease |
| Asp_protease | Asp_protease |
| Asp | Asp |
| Pepsin-I3 | |
| A1_Propeptide | |
| Inhibitor_I34 | |
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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