9.B.237.  The Ubiquitous Uncharacterized 7 TMS Protein-1(UUP1) Family  

This family consists of proteins from uncultured bacteria as well as well characterized bacterial and archaeal phyla.  They all appear to have a single N-terminal TMS followed by a hydrophilic domain, either short (<50 residues) or long >300 residues, followed by a C-terminal 6 TMS domain, where all 6 TMSs appear to be present together, but in three groups of closely clustering sets of 2 TMSs. Some of these proteins may lack the N-terminal hydrophilic domain, thus having only 6 TMSs. Others have all 7 TMSs N-terminal with a long C-terminal hydrophilic domain. Many of these protein are annotated 'Gonadoliberin III-like protein' implying the presence of eukaryotic homologues.


Examples:

TC#NameOrganismal TypeExample
9.B.237.1.1

Uncharacterized protein of 298 aas and 7 TMSs in a 1 + 6 arrangement.

UP of Candidatus Beckwithbacteria bacterium

 
9.B.237.1.2

Uncharacterized protein of 531 aas and 8 TMSs in a 1 + 7 arrangement.

UP of Aquimarina aggregata

 
9.B.237.1.3

Uncharacterized protein of 511 aas and 7 TMSs with one N-terminal TMS, a large (~300 residue) hydrophilic domain, and a C-terminal 6 TMS domain.

UP of Pseudomonas fluorescens

 
9.B.237.1.4

RimK domain protein ATP-grasp of 584 aas and 7 N-terminal TMSs.

RimK daomin protein of Halobacterium sp. DL1

 
9.B.237.1.5

Uncharacterized protein of 555 aas and 7 TMSs.

UP of candidate division SR1 bacterium

 
9.B.237.1.6

Inactive transglutaminase fused to 7 transmembrane helices.  This protein has the topology typical  of this family with 1 N-terminal domain and 6 or 7 C-terminal TMSs.

UP of Vibrio hangzhouensis