RecU

• Description: DNA repair, homologous recombination and chromosome segregation
  
  

Gene name	recU
Synonyms	recG, prfA, yppB, jopB
Essential	no
Product	Holliday junction resolvase
Function	DNA repair, homologous recombination and chromosome segregation
MW, pI	23 kDa, 9.511
Gene length, protein length	618 bp, 206 aa
Immediate neighbours	yppC, ponA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU22310

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: RecA-RecU

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 1ZP7

• UniProt: P39792

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Begoña Carrasco, Cristina Cañas, Gary J Sharples, Juan C Alonso, Silvia Ayora
The N-terminal region of the RecU holliday junction resolvase is essential for homologous recombination.
J Mol Biol: 2009, 390(1);1-9
[PubMed:19422832] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Begoña Carrasco, Silvia Ayora, Rudi Lurz, Juan C Alonso
Bacillus subtilis RecU Holliday-junction resolvase modulates RecA activities.
Nucleic Acids Res: 2005, 33(12);3942-52
[PubMed:16024744] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Begoña Carrasco, M Castillo Cozar, Rudi Lurz, Juan C Alonso, Silvia Ayora
Genetic recombination in Bacillus subtilis 168: contribution of Holliday junction processing functions in chromosome segregation.
J Bacteriol: 2004, 186(17);5557-66
[PubMed:15317759] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

B Carrasco, S Fernández, K Asai, N Ogasawara, J C Alonso
Effect of the recU suppressors sms and subA on DNA repair and homologous recombination in Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Genet Genomics: 2002, 266(5);899-906
[PubMed:11810266] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

S Fernández, A Sorokin, J C Alonso
Genetic recombination in Bacillus subtilis 168: effects of recU and recS mutations on DNA repair and homologous recombination.
J Bacteriol: 1998, 180(13);3405-9
[PubMed:9642195] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)