Summary
EGF superfamily
Members of this clan all belong to the EGF superfamily. This particular superfamily is characterised as having least 6 cysteines residues. These cysteine form disulphide bonds, in the order 1-3, 2-4, 5-6, which are essential for the stability of the EGF fold. These disulphide bonds are stacked in a ladder-like arrangement. The Laminin EGF family is distinguished by having an an additional disulphide bond. The function of the domains within this family remains unclear, but they are though to largely perform a structural role. More often than not, there domains are arranged a tandem repeats in extracellular proteins.
This clan contains 9 families and the total number of domains in the clan is 24220.
Literature references
- Hohenester E, Engel J; , Matrix Biol 2002;21:115-128.: Domain structure and organisation in extracellular matrix proteins. 11852228
- Appella E, Weber IT, Blasi F; , FEBS Lett 1988;231:1-4.: Structure and function of epidermal growth factor-like regions in proteins. 3282918
Members
This clan contains the following 9 member families:
DSL EGF EGF_2 EGF_alliinase EGF_CA FOLN Laminin_B Laminin_EGF Tme5_EGF_likeExternal database links
| CATH: | 2.10.25.10 |
| SCOP: | 57196 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EGF_CA (PF07645) | 8473 (35.0%) | View |
| EGF (PF00008) | 7836 (32.4%) | View |
| Laminin_EGF (PF00053) | 3816 (15.8%) | View |
| EGF_2 (PF07974) | 3450 (14.2%) | View |
| Laminin_B (PF00052) | 261 (1.1%) | View |
| DSL (PF01414) | 184 (0.8%) | View |
| FOLN (PF09289) | 145 (0.6%) | View |
| EGF_alliinase (PF04863) | 40 (0.2%) | View |
| Tme5_EGF_like (PF09064) | 15 (0.1%) | View |
| Total: 9 | Total: 24220 | Clan alignment |
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Family relationships
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Species distribution
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Interactions
There are 28 interactions for this clan. More...
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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