About Gene List

PF3D7_1108700 (Pfj2)

Genome location: Pf3D7_11_v3:372,099..376,865(-)

Genome classification: Core

Function and Localization

Product Description: heat shock protein J2

SignalP Peptide: N/A

# Transmembrane Domains: 1

EC Numbers: None

Curated GO (PlasmoDB):

Type GO Term Name
Component GO:0005783 endoplasmic reticulum
Component GO:0044164 host cell cytosol
Component GO:0005634 nucleus
Function GO:0003723 RNA binding
Function GO:0005515 protein binding
Function GO:0051082 unfolded protein binding
Process GO:0006457 protein folding
Process GO:0009408 response to heat

Expression by stage (LR - Le Roch et al., and MCA - Malaria Cell Atlas):

Stage LR class MCA mean MCA prop. zeros
Sporozoite expressed N/A N/A
Ring expressed 0.31 0.85
Trophozoite expressed 0.66 0.63
Schizont expressed 0.46 0.74
Gametocyte expressed 0.75 0.59

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Resistome Mutations

Old (Pf3D7v3) Gene ID: PF3D7_1108700

Resistome Missense Mutations: None

Resistome Compounds with Missense Mutations: None

Resistome # Samples with Disruptive Mutations: 0 (0 missense, 0 "interesting" missense)

Essentiality (ABS)

Zhang Phenotype: Non - Mutable in CDS

MIS: 0.143 | MFS: -3.27 | #Insertions: 0

PlasmoGEM Phenotype: Essential (Pb ortholog: PBANKA_0938300)

  • Relative Growth Rate: 0.13 ± 0.19
  • Confidence: 4.71

RMgmDB ABS Phenotype: Different from wild type (Pb ortholog: PBANKA_0938300)

Modification: Disrupted | RMgm-5124

More info: PhenoPlasm Link

Binding Evidence

AlphaFill Uniprot ID: Q8IIR6

"Best" AlphaFill ligand hit: No AlphaFill hits

No associated EC numbers

No evidence of orthology to BindingDB entries

Orthology Information

Ortholog Group (OrthoMCL): OG6_107903

Most Similar Human Ortholog: H7C1G0

TM-align score: 0.63 | RMSD: 3.88

Seq Identity: 0.12 | Length: 109 / 540

All Human Orthologs (OrthoMCL):

Gene ID Description
ENSG00000077232 DnaJ heat shock protein family (Hsp40) member C10

Genetic Variation

MalariaGEN Pf7 (worldwide samples) # unique SNV/indels:

No passing variants found

PlasmoDB Total SNPs: 295

Non-coding: 266 | Synonymous: 23 | Nonsynonymous: 6 | Stop Codon: 0

Protein Information

Protein Length: 540 | Molecular Weight (kDa): 62.377

UniProt ID(s): O77048, Q8IIR6

PDB ID(s): None

Isoelectric Point: 9.44

Protein Domain Annotations:

Source Family ID Description
InterPro IPR001623 DnaJ domain
InterPro IPR013766 Thioredoxin domain
InterPro IPR018253 DnaJ domain, conserved site
InterPro IPR036249 Thioredoxin-like superfamily
InterPro IPR036869 Chaperone J-domain superfamily
PFam PF00085 Thioredoxin domain
PFam PF00226 DnaJ domain
Superfamily SSF46565 Chaperone J-domain superfamily
Superfamily SSF52833 Thioredoxin-like superfamily

Associated Publications

PMID Title Authors DOI/Link
12368864 Genome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Gardner MJ, Hall N, ..., Barrell B 10.1038/nature01097
16267556 A protein interaction network of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. LaCount DJ, Vignali M, ..., Hughes RE 10.1038/nature04104
19294420 Return to sender: use of Plasmodium ER retrieval sequences to study proteintransport in the infected erythrocyte and predict putative ER protein families. Kulzer S, Gehde N, Przyborski JM 10.1007/s00436-009-1397-x
28322872 Plasmodium Hsp40 and human Hsp70: A potential cochaperone-chaperone complex. Jha P, Laskar S, ..., Bhattacharyya S 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2017.03.003
30379851 Identification of Plasmodium falciparum nuclear proteins by mass spectrometry andproposed protein annotation. Briquet S, Ourimi A, ..., Vaquero C 10.1371/journal.pone.0205596
33906926 Functional Characterization of the m(6)A-Dependent Translational Modulator PfYTH Sinha A, Baumgarten S, ..., Scherf A 10.1128/mBio.00661-21
33534803 A redox-active crosslinker reveals an essential and inhibitable oxidative foldingnetwork in the endoplasmic reticulum of malaria parasites Cobb DW, Kudyba HM, ..., Muralidharan V 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009293