2ajq

Structural highlights

Function

[THIO_ECOLI] Participates in various redox reactions through the reversible oxidation of its active center dithiol to a disulfide and catalyzes dithiol-disulfide exchange reactions. [DPOL_BPT7] Replicates viral genomic DNA. Non-processive DNA polymerase that achieves processivity by binding to host thioredoxin (TrxA). This interaction increases the rate of dNTP incorporation to yield a processivity of approximately 800 nucleotides (nt) per binding event. Interacts with DNA helicase gp4 to coordinate nucleotide polymerization with unwinding of the DNA. The leading strand is synthesized continuously while synthesis of the lagging strand requires the synthesis of oligoribonucleotides by the primase domain of gp4.^{[1] [2]}

Evolutionary Conservation

Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf.

See Also

• DNA polymerase
• Thioredoxin

References

1. ↑ Notarnicola SM, Mulcahy HL, Lee J, Richardson CC. The acidic carboxyl terminus of the bacteriophage T7 gene 4 helicase/primase interacts with T7 DNA polymerase. J Biol Chem. 1997 Jul 18;272(29):18425-33. PMID:9218486
2. ↑ Zhang H, Lee SJ, Zhu B, Tran NQ, Tabor S, Richardson CC. Helicase-DNA polymerase interaction is critical to initiate leading-strand DNA synthesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Jun 7;108(23):9372-7. doi:, 10.1073/pnas.1106678108. Epub 2011 May 23. PMID:21606333 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1106678108