Protein Family Models

The toprim domain is found in a wide variety of enzymes involved in nucleic acid manipulation [1]. [1]. 9722641. Toprim--a conserved catalytic domain in type IA and II topoisomerases, DnaG-type primases, OLD family nucleases and RecR proteins. Aravind L, Leipe DD, Koonin EV;. Nucleic Acids Res 1998;26:4205-4213. (from Pfam)

Date:

2024-10-16

This is a conserved region from DNA primase. This corresponds to the Toprim domain common to DnaG primases, topoisomerases, OLD family nucleases and RecR proteins [1]. Both DnaG motifs IV and V are present in the alignment, the DxD (V) motif may be involved in Mg2+ binding and mutations to the conserved glutamate (IV) completely abolish DnaG type primase activity [1]. DNA primase EC:2.7.7.6 is a nucleotidyltransferase it synthesises the oligoribonucleotide primers required for DNA replication on the lagging strand of the replication fork; it can also prime the leading stand and has been implicated in cell division [2]. This family also includes the atypical archaeal A subunit from type II DNA topoisomerases [4]. Type II DNA topoisomerases catalyse the relaxation of DNA supercoiling by causing transient double strand breaks. [1]. 9722641. Toprim--a conserved catalytic domain in type IA and II topoisomerases, DnaG-type primases, OLD family nucleases and RecR proteins. Aravind L, Leipe DD, Koonin EV;. Nucleic Acids Res 1998;26:4205-4213. [2]. 9224947. Cloning and analysis of the dnaG gene encoding Pseudomonas putida DNA primase. Szafranski P, Smith CL, Cantor CR;. Biochim Biophys Acta 1997;1352:243-248. [3]. 8294018. The Haemophilus influenzae dnaG sequence and conserved bacterial primase motifs. Versalovic J, Lupski JR;. Gene 1993;136:281-286. [4]. 9121560. An atypical topoisomerase II from Archaea with implications for meiotic recombination. Bergerat A, de Massy B, Gadelle D, Varoutas PC, Nicolas A, Forterre P;. Nature 1997;386:414-417. (from Pfam)

Date:

2024-10-16

toprim (topoisomerase-primase) domain-containing protein| DUF3991 and toprim (topoisomerase-primase) domain-containing protein may function as a bifunctional DNA primase/helicase

Date:

2017-03-02

Date:

2020-10-26