ExoA

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  • Description: apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease, multifunctional DNA-repair enzyme, important for spore dormance

Gene name exoA
Synonyms
Essential no
Product apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease
Function repair of oxidative DNA damage in spores
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: exoA
MW, pI 29 kDa, 4.592
Gene length, protein length 756 bp, 252 aa
Immediate neighbours ccpB, rpsR
Sequences Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context
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Expression at a glance   PubMed
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Categories containing this gene/protein

DNA repair/ recombination, sporulation proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigG regulon

The gene

Basic information

  • Locus tag: BSU40880

Phenotypes of a mutant

Database entries

  • DBTBS entry: [1]
  • SubtiList entry: [2]

Additional information

  • ExoA is functionally redundant with Nfo

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Exonucleolytic cleavage in the 3'- to 5'-direction to yield nucleoside 5'-phosphates (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Protein family: DNA repair enzymes AP/exoA family (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

  • Kinetic information:
  • Domains:
  • Modification:
  • Cofactor(s):
  • Effectors of protein activity:

Database entries

  • Structure:
  • KEGG entry: [3]
  • E.C. number:

Additional information

Expression and regulation

  • Regulation:
    • expressed late during sporulation in the forespore (SigG) PubMed
  • Regulatory mechanism:
  • Additional information:

Biological materials

  • Expression vector:
  • lacZ fusion:
  • GFP fusion:
  • two-hybrid system:
  • Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Your additional remarks

References

Additional publications: PubMed

Marcelo Barraza-Salas, Juan R Ibarra-Rodríguez, Silvia J Mellado, José M Salas-Pacheco, Peter Setlow, Mario Pedraza-Reyes
Effects of forespore-specific overexpression of apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease Nfo on the DNA-damage resistance properties of Bacillus subtilis spores.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 2010, 302(2);159-65
[PubMed:19930460] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Juan R Ibarra, Alma D Orozco, Juan A Rojas, Karina López, Peter Setlow, Ronald E Yasbin, Mario Pedraza-Reyes
Role of the Nfo and ExoA apurinic/apyrimidinic endonucleases in repair of DNA damage during outgrowth of Bacillus subtilis spores.
J Bacteriol: 2008, 190(6);2031-8
[PubMed:18203828] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

José M Salas-Pacheco, Barbara Setlow, Peter Setlow, Mario Pedraza-Reyes
Role of the Nfo (YqfS) and ExoA apurinic/apyrimidinic endonucleases in protecting Bacillus subtilis spores from DNA damage.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(21);7374-81
[PubMed:16237020] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

T Shida, T Ogawa, N Ogasawara, J Sekiguchi
Characterization of Bacillus subtilis ExoA protein: a multifunctional DNA-repair enzyme similar to the Escherichia coli exonuclease III.
Biosci Biotechnol Biochem: 1999, 63(9);1528-34
[PubMed:10540738] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)