The evolutionarily conserved Death Domain superfamily is defined by a death fold motif which is formed by several protein-interaction domains. The domains consist of six-seven tightly coiled alpha-helices arranged in a "Greek-key fold". This superfamily is considered one of the largest and most studied protein-protein interaction (PPI) network.
The PYD domain, also known as the Domain in Apoptosis and INterferon response (DAPIN) domain, is typically found in vertebrates and viral proteins and are involved in apoptosis, cancer, and inflammation. The functions of this group are the least understood among the 4 members of the death domain superfamily.
This domain is predominantly found in the animal kingdom, especially among mammals, who have many different types of PPI's containing death domains. According to SMART's non-redundant database, mammals have about 61% of known DD-domains. DD-containing proteins are associated with apoptosis and inflammation, similar to the CARD domain. It has also been linked with innate immunity. DDs can also be found with other types of domains including Ankyrin repeats, caspase-like folds, kinase domains, leucine zippers, leucine-rich repeats (LRR), TIR domains, and ZU5 domains.
Deathdomain.org was initially created by Kwon et al. (2012) to stimulate further research into the death domain superfamily mediated signaling pathway. Their database is manually curated and focuses on providing detailed information on the death domain superfamily and its protein-protein interactions. Kwon and his team started by researching, compiling and curating 295 published peer-reviewed studies that focused on PPI modules and their associated death domains. The database now provides users with information from 311 peer-reviewed studies, a slight increase from the original publication.
To curate data in the literature, the authors chose to focus on the analytical methods, experimental results, resources, and nomenclature. If there was insufficient data in the papers, users will see "Not specified" in these sections.
This feature can be accessed by picking a death domain of interest and using the subtab to pick a protein containing this domain. It will take the user to a wealth of information that can be seen in great detail ("In detail" tab) or in lesser detail ("At a glance" tab) on top (Fig. 1D and 1C, respectively). The data is further broken down into three categories: interaction, characterization, and functional role. These categories were chosen because they were used in similar studies. In most cases, for each PPI, users can learn more about them by clicking the PubMed ID, giving details including the title, abstract, authors, interactions mentioned in the article, and a link to the publication.
Other subheading tabs give access to protein information including the proteins full name, alternative names, function, and death domain subfamily and boundary region. The latter conveniently allows users to obtain the amino acid sequences and domain boundaries from UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot and UniProtKB/TrEMBL databases in either embl, genbank or fasta format. By clicking the external database link, users can get this information for the domain-containing protein found in other species. They can also access more information on similar databases (Uniprot, DIP, STRING, KEGG, IntAct, and MINT) by clicking the appropriate identifier number. The last two tabs will provide users with downloadable 3-D structure images under the "3-D structure" tab and the natural mutations and related diseases they are involved in under the "Disease" tab (Fig. 1E).
Kwon, Dongseop; Yoon Jong Hwan; Shin Soo-Yong; Jang Tae-Ho; Kim Hong-Gee; So Insuk; Jeon Ju-Hong; Park Hyun Ho (Jan 2012). "A comprehensive manually curated protein-protein interaction database for the Death Domain superfamily". Nucleic Acids Research. 40 (D1): D331 – D336. doi:10.1093/nar/gkr1149. PMC 3245059. PMID 22135292. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3245059
Kwon, Dongseop; Yoon Jong Hwan; Shin Soo-Yong; Jang Tae-Ho; Kim Hong-Gee; So Insuk; Jeon Ju-Hong; Park Hyun Ho (Jan 2012). "A comprehensive manually curated protein-protein interaction database for the Death Domain superfamily". Nucleic Acids Research. 40 (D1): D331 – D336. doi:10.1093/nar/gkr1149. PMC 3245059. PMID 22135292. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3245059
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Kwon, Dongseop; Yoon Jong Hwan; Shin Soo-Yong; Jang Tae-Ho; Kim Hong-Gee; So Insuk; Jeon Ju-Hong; Park Hyun Ho (Jan 2012). "A comprehensive manually curated protein-protein interaction database for the Death Domain superfamily". Nucleic Acids Research. 40 (D1): D331 – D336. doi:10.1093/nar/gkr1149. PMC 3245059. PMID 22135292. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3245059
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DEATH: DEATH domain, found in proteins involved in cell death (apoptosis)., retrieved 3 November 2016 http://smart.embl-heidelberg.de/smart/do_annotation.pl?DOMAIN=DEATH
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Szklarcyk, D; Francheschini, A; Kuhn, M; Simonovic, M; Roth, A; Minquez, P; Doerks, T; Stark, M; Muller, J; Bork, P; et al. (2011). "The STRING database in 2011: functional interaction networks of proteins, globally integrated and scored". Nucleic Acids Res. 39 (Database issue): D561 – D568. doi:10.1093/nar/gkq973. PMC 3013807. PMID 21045058. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3013807
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