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The approximately 110 amino acid long ASCH domains are widely represented in all the three superkingdoms of life and several prokaryotic viruses. We show that the ASCH superfamily adopts a beta-barrel fold similar to the PUA domain superfamily. Using multiple lines of evidence, we suggest that members of the ASCH superfamily are likely to function as RNA-binding domains in contexts related to coactivation, RNA-processing and possibly prokaryotic translation regulation. Structural analysis of ASCH domains reveals the presence of a potential RNA-binding cleft associated with a conserved sequence motif, which is characteristic of this superfamily. Despite their similar structure, the ASCH and PUA domains appear to occupy distinct functional niches, with the former domains typically occurring in a standalone form in polypeptides, and the latter domains showing fusions to a variety of RNA-modifying enzymes.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0aravind@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Supplementary information: A complete alignment of all ASCH domains in the NR-database and other domains found fused to the ASCH can be retrieved from<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/bti767","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2005,12,1]],"date-time":"2005-12-01T20:14:08Z","timestamp":1133468048000},"page":"257-263","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":57,"title":["The ASCH superfamily: novel domains with a fold related to the PUA domain and a potential role in RNA metabolism"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Lakshminarayan M.","family":"Iyer","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health \u00a0 Bethesda, MD 20894, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"A. 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