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Family: Hammerhead_3 (RF00008)

Description: Hammerhead ribozyme (type III)

Summary

Clan

This family is a member of clan (CL00010), which contains the following 5 members:

Hammerhead_1 Hammerhead_3 Hammerhead_HH10 Hammerhead_HH9 Hammerhead_II

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Sequences

Alignment

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Secondary structure

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Species distribution

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Structures

For those sequences which have a structure in the Protein DataBank, we generate a mapping between EMBL, PDB and Rfam coordinate systems. The table below shows the structures on which the Hammerhead_3 family has been found.

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Motif matches

There are 1 motifs which match this family.

This section shows the Rfam motifs that match sequences within the seed alignment of this family. Users should be aware that the motifs are structural constructs and do not necessarily conform to taxonomic boundaries in the way that Rfam families do. More...

Original order Motif Accession Motif Description Number of Hits Fraction of Hits Sum of Bits Image
7 RM00008 GNRA tetraloop 8 0.098 81.7 Match Image

References

This section shows the database cross-references that we have for this Rfam family.

Literature references

  1. Pley HW, Flaherty KM, McKay DB Nature 1994;372:68-74. Three-dimensional structure of a hammerhead ribozyme. PUBMED:7969422

  2. Murray JB, Terwey DP, Maloney L, Karpeisky A, Usman N, Beigelman L, Scott WG Cell 1998;92:665-673. The structural basis of hammerhead ribozyme self-cleavage. PUBMED:9506521

  3. Ferbeyre G, Bourdeau V, Pageau M, Miramontes P, Cedergren R Genome Res 2000;10:1011-1019. Distribution of hammerhead and hammerhead-like RNA motifs through the GenBank. PUBMED:10899150

  4. Chi YI, Martick M, Lares M, Kim R, Scott WG, Kim SH PLoS Biol. 2008;6:e234. Capturing hammerhead ribozyme structures in action by modulating general base catalysis. PUBMED:18834200

  5. Mir A, Chen J, Robinson K, Lendy E, Goodman J, Neau D, Golden BL Biochemistry. 2015;54:6369-6381. Two Divalent Metal Ions and Conformational Changes Play Roles in the Hammerhead Ribozyme Cleavage Reaction. PUBMED:26398724

  6. Mir A, Golden BL Biochemistry. 2016;55:633-636. Two Active Site Divalent Ions in the Crystal Structure of the Hammerhead Ribozyme Bound to a Transition State Analogue. PUBMED:26551631

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Curation and family details

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Curation

Seed source Bateman A
Structure source Published; PMID:7969422
Type Gene; ribozyme;
Author Bateman AORCID logo, Ontiveros-Palacios NORCID logo
Alignment details
Alignment Number of
sequences
full 240
seed 85

Model information

Build commands
cmbuild -F CM SEED
cmcalibrate --mpi CM
Search command
cmsearch --cpu 4 --verbose --nohmmonly -T 30.00 -Z 742849.287494 CM SEQDB
Gathering cutoff 41.8
Trusted cutoff 41.8
Noise cutoff 41.7
Covariance model Download