diff --git a/projects/novelfams/translate2modelcif.py b/projects/novelfams/translate2modelcif.py
index 8cfbf839eb16606be308e80ee7949e45b33df531..15650d4b84a92f0d570714e597275e3d50ae24ee 100644
--- a/projects/novelfams/translate2modelcif.py
+++ b/projects/novelfams/translate2modelcif.py
@@ -526,6 +526,12 @@ def _get_sequence_dbs_alphafold(seq_dbs):
             version="2018_08",
             release_date=None,
         ),
+        "PDB70": modelcif.ReferenceDatabase(
+            "PDB70",
+            "http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~compbiol/data/hhsuite/databases/"
+            + "hhsuite_dbs/old-releases/pdb70_from_mmcif_200401.tar.gz",
+            release_date=datetime.datetime(2020, 4, 1),
+        ),
     }
     return [db_dict[seq_db] for seq_db in seq_dbs]
 
@@ -546,7 +552,7 @@ def _get_modelcif_protocol_data(data_labels, target_entities, model, msa):
         elif label == "alphafold_reference_dbs":
             data.extend(
                 _get_sequence_dbs_alphafold(
-                    ["MGnify", "UniRef90", "BFD", "Uniclust30"]
+                    ["MGnify", "UniRef90", "BFD", "Uniclust30", "PDB70"]
                 )
             )
         elif label == "msas":