Superoxide dismutase [Cu-Zn]

Homo sapiens · seed P00441 · 154 aa · family defined as ≥30% identity to that seed · compiled 07 October 2026

Open in CODSWALLOP UniProt P00441 RCSB by accession PDBe-KB AlphaFold DB InterPro CATH 2.60.40.200 CATH 3.30.70.100 SCOP 8055253 SCOP 8055251 SCOP 8055259 SCOP 8062177 SCOP 8062205 SCOP 8062209 SCOP 8055265 SCOP 8062203 SCOP 8055277 RCSB 1HL4 PDBe

CATH and SCOP identifiers come from the RCSB's own structure annotations, which the Domains panel already reads, so these are looked up rather than guessed at.

Every figure here is counted over the whole family rather than quoted from one entry.

The reference structure

1HL4, the structure every other member of this family is superposed onto. Rendered by the RCSB and embedded here: the live app shows an interactive viewport, which a document that fetches nothing cannot.

Which residues anyone has ever seen

How many of this family's constructs contain each residue of the seed. A trough is a stretch nobody has put in a construct, which is a construct-design answer rather than a disorder one.

Constructs, most-used first

142 distinct constructs across 252 entries. 236 polymer entities differ from the UniProt canonical sequence in some way, 11 carry a recognised expression tag and 0 carry a fusion partner.

"Differs from canonical" is not the same as "engineered". The canonical sequence is the full gene product, so a secreted protein whose structures all start after its signal peptide counts every one of them as different: lysozyme's most-used construct, residues 19–147 on 1,239 entities, is simply the mature protein. Read the construct column below for what was actually done, rather than this count.

Showing the 25 most-used of 142.

Positions people deliberately mutate

Columns where the wild-type residue still dominates but a real minority carries something else, which is a different question from "what varies across species".

What it assembles into

176 entries have the depositor's assembly corroborated by PISA, 71 carry the depositor's word alone and 5 were assigned by PISA where the depositor gave none. The middle figure is not a disagreement: PISA may have returned nothing or never run. 12 entries carry more than one assembly with different chain counts, so they have no single answer to quote: 1DO5, 1JK9, 1TO5, 1XTL, 1XTM, 2AQN, 2AQP, 2AQQ, 2AQR, 2AQT, 3HFF, 7FB9.

Domain architecture

Every source's own domains on the seed axis, one row each. They are not merged: Pfam, CATH, SCOP and InterPro disagree about boundaries, and a merged track would state a consensus none of them gave.

What binds it

ZN205 entries CU130 entries 9JT4 entries HEM3 entries S4P3 entries CPT2 entries ACE2 entries PS52 entries 5FW2 entries LQW2 entries Q8H2 entries Q8E2 entries

How it crystallises

Parsed from the free text 203 depositors typed into _exptl_crystal_grow.pdbx_details, out of 215 entries that recorded anything at all. Median pH 6.5 (range 3.8 to 9.0).

Precipitants

Buffers

Which entries to trust

251 entries carry a wwPDB validation report: 124 clean, 84 worth a check and 43 with something to explain. Median clashscore 5.32, median RSRZ outliers 3.05%, median R-free minus R-work 0.039. 229 have released structure factors.

Across species

Seed sequence

154 residues, numbered every ten. Every identity figure in this document is measured against this sequence.

active or binding site modified residue or glycosylation disulphide cysteine transmembrane or signal the 15 most-substituted positions

Sites are UniProt's curated features where the seed is a UniProt accession; the substituted positions are measured from this family's own alignment rather than annotated, and only the fifteen most substituted are marked: every position carrying a minority substitution would be most of the protein, because the family holds orthologues. A residue can carry more than one and is drawn with the first that applies, in the order of the key above.

Primary citations

One record per paper, not per entry.