RecU

• Description: DNA repair, homologous recombination and chromosome segregation; recognizes, distorts, and cleaves four-stranded recombination intermediates and modulates RecA activities
  
  

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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Categories containing this gene/protein

DNA repair/ recombination, cell envelope stress proteins (controlled by SigM, W, X, Y)

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigM regulon

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:
  • form dimers PubMed
  • RecA-RecU PubMed
  • RecU-RuvB PubMed

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 1ZP7

• UniProt: P39792

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: recU-ponA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigM PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:
  • GP891 (recU::cat), available in Stülke lab

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: