This entry represents a domain of unknown function found in diverse proteins across Bacteria. The domain is around 95-100 residues in length and is found in mechanosensitive channel proteins, where it is located N-terminal to the mechanosensitive channel second transmembrane helix domain ([pfam:PF00924]), and in endolytic peptidoglycan transglycosylases such as RlpA, where it precedes the double-psi beta-barrel domain ([pfam:PF03330]). The domain is found across Cyanobacteriota, Bacteroidota and Pseudomonadota. The function of this domain remains to be determined.
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