DnaB

• Description: initiation of chromosome replication/ membrane attachment protein
  
  

Gene name	dnaB
Synonyms
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	initiation of chromosome replication/ membrane attachment protein
Function	DNA replication
MW, pI	54 kDa, 5.278
Gene length, protein length	1416 bp, 472 aa
Immediate neighbours	dnaI, ytcG
Gene sequence (+200bp)	Protein sequence
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The gene

Basic information

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Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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Extended information on the protein

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• Interactions: DnaX-DnaB PubMed

• Localization: Membrane-proximal (Spotty) PubMed forms foci, close to oriC PubMed

Database entries

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• Swiss prot entry:

• KEGG entry: [2]

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Expression and regulation

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Biological materials

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• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

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References

1. Meile et al. (2006) Systematic localisation of proteins fused to the green fluorescent protein in Bacillus subtilis: identification of new proteins at the DNA replication factory Proteomics 6: 2135-2146. PubMed
2. Haroniti et al. (2004) The clamp-loader-helicase interaction in Bacillus. Atomic force microscopy reveals the structural organisation of the DnaB-tau complex in Bacillus.J. Mol. Biol. 336: 381-393. PubMed
3. Imai et al. (2000) Subcellular localization of Dna-initiation proteins of Bacillus subtilis: evidence that chromosome replication begins at either edge of the nucleoids. Mol. Microbiol. 36: 1037-1048. PubMed