SUPERFAMILY 1.73 HMM library and genome assignments server


RuBisCo, C-terminal domain superfamily

SCOP classification
Root:   SCOP hierarchy in SUPERFAMILY [ 0] (11)
Class:   Alpha and beta proteins (a/b) [ 51349] (141)
  Mainly parallel beta sheets (beta-alpha-beta units)
Fold:   TIM beta/alpha-barrel [ 51350] (33)
  contains parallel beta-sheet barrel, closed; n=8, S=8; strand order 12345678
the first seven superfamilies have similar phosphate-binding sites
Superfamily:   RuBisCo, C-terminal domain [ 51649]
Families:   RuBisCo, large subunit, C-terminal domain [ 51650]
  N-terminal domain is alpha+beta


Superfamily statistics
Genomes (200) UniProt 15.0 PDB chains (SCOP 1.73)
Domains 300 28,275 22
Proteins 300 28,253 22


Functional annotation
General category Metabolism
Detailed category Photosynthesis

Function annotation of SCOP domain superfamilies
InterPro annotation
Cross references IPR000685 SSF51649 Protein matches
Abstract Ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase (RuBisCO) [PubMed6351728, PubMed12221984] catalyzes the initial step in Calvin's reductive pentose phosphate cycle in plants as well as purple and green bacteria. It consists of a large catalytic unit and a small subunit of undetermined function. In plants, the large subunit is coded by the chloroplastic genome while the small subunit is encoded in the nuclear genome. Molecular activation of RuBisCO by CO2 involves the formation of a carbamate with the epsilon-amino group of a conserved lysine residue. This carbamate is stabilized by a magnesium ion. One of the ligands of the magnesium ion is an aspartic acid residue close to the active site lysine [PubMed1969412].

InterPro database

PDBeMotif information about ligands, sequence and structure motifs
Cross references PDB entries
Ligand binding statistics
Nucleic-acid binding statistics
Occurrence of secondary structure elements
Occurrence of small 3D structural motifs

PDBeMotif resource

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Internal database links

Browse genome assignments for this superfamily. The SUPERFAMILY hidden Markov model library has been used to carry out SCOP domain assignments to all genomes at the superfamily level.


Alignments of sequences to 12 models in this superfamily are available by clicking on the 'Alignments' icon above. PDB sequences less than 40% identical are shown by default, but any other sequence(s) may be aligned. Select PDB sequences, genome sequences, or paste in or upload your own sequences.


Browse and view proteins in genomes which have different domain combinations including a RuBisCo, C-terminal domain domain.


Examine the distribution of domain superfamilies, or families, across the major taxonomic kingdoms or genomes within a kingdom. This gives an immediate impression of how superfamilies, or families, are restricted to certain kingdoms of life.


Explore domain occurrence network where nodes represent genomes and edges are domain architectures (shared between genomes) containing the superfamily of interest.

There are 12 hidden Markov models representing the RuBisCo, C-terminal domain superfamily. Information on how the models are built, and plots showing hydrophobicity, match emmission probabilities and insertion/deletion probabilities can be inspected.


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