AddA

• Description: ATP-dependent deoxyribonuclease (subunit A)
  
  

Gene name	addA
Synonyms	recE5
Essential	no
Product	ATP-dependent deoxyribonuclease (subunit A))
Function	DNA repair and recombination
MW, pI	140 kDa, 5.127
Gene length, protein length	3696 bp, 1232 aa
Immediate neighbours	addB, sbcD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU10630

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: uvrD-like helicase C-terminal domain (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P23478

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant: GP1106 (addAB, spc), available in Stülke lab

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Joseph T P Yeeles, Richard Cammack, Mark S Dillingham
An iron-sulfur cluster is essential for the binding of broken DNA by AddAB-type helicase-nucleases.
J Biol Chem: 2009, 284(12);7746-55
[PubMed:19129187] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Alexander Serganov, Yu-Ren Yuan, Olga Pikovskaya, Anna Polonskaia, Lucy Malinina, Anh Tuân Phan, Claudia Hobartner, Ronald Micura, Ronald R Breaker, Dinshaw J Patel
Structural basis for discriminative regulation of gene expression by adenine- and guanine-sensing mRNAs.
Chem Biol: 2004, 11(12);1729-41
[PubMed:15610857] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

B J Haijema, L W Hamoen, J Kooistra, G Venema, D van Sinderen
Expression of the ATP-dependent deoxyribonuclease of Bacillus subtilis is under competence-mediated control.
Mol Microbiol: 1995, 15(2);203-11
[PubMed:7746142] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

J Kooistra, B J Haijema, G Venema
The Bacillus subtilis addAB genes are fully functional in Escherichia coli.
Mol Microbiol: 1993, 7(6);915-23
[PubMed:8387145] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)