RecN

• Description: DNA repair and genetic recombination
  
  

Gene name	recN
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	DNA repair and genetic recombination
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: recN
MW, pI	64 kDa, 4.802
Gene length, protein length	1728 bp, 576 aa
Immediate neighbours	spoIVB, ahrC
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

DNA repair/ recombination, membrane proteins

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU24240

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU24240

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:
  • RecN stimulates polymerizing activity of PnpA PubMed

• Protein family: recN family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:
  • nucleoid (Multiple) PubMed
  • evenly distributed in growing cells PubMed
  • upon DNA damage, RecN forms a single focus per nucleoid PubMed

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU24240

• Structure:

• UniProt: P17894

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ahrC-recN PubMed

• Expression browser: recN PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:
  • 1A891 ( recN::cat), PubMed, available at BGSC

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Peter Graumann, Freiburg University, Germany homepage

References

Reviews

Juan C Alonso, Paula P Cardenas, Humberto Sanchez, James Hejna, Yuki Suzuki, Kunio Takeyasu
Early steps of double-strand break repair in Bacillus subtilis.
DNA Repair (Amst): 2013, 12(3);162-76
[PubMed:23380520] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Justin S Lenhart, Jeremy W Schroeder, Brian W Walsh, Lyle A Simmons
DNA repair and genome maintenance in Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiol Mol Biol Rev: 2012, 76(3);530-64
[PubMed:22933559] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Silvia Ayora, Begoña Carrasco, Paula P Cárdenas, Carolina E César, Cristina Cañas, Tribhuwan Yadav, Chiara Marchisone, Juan C Alonso
Double-strand break repair in bacteria: a view from Bacillus subtilis.
FEMS Microbiol Rev: 2011, 35(6);1055-81
[PubMed:21517913] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Peter L Graumann, Tobias Knust
Dynamics of the bacterial SMC complex and SMC-like proteins involved in DNA repair.
Chromosome Res: 2009, 17(2);265-75
[PubMed:19308706] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Original publications

Paula P Cardenas, Carolina Gándara, Juan C Alonso
DNA double strand break end-processing and RecA induce RecN expression levels in Bacillus subtilis.
DNA Repair (Amst): 2014, 14;1-8
[PubMed:24373815] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Paula P Cardenas, Thomas Carzaniga, Sandro Zangrossi, Federica Briani, Esther Garcia-Tirado, Gianni Dehò, Juan C Alonso
Polynucleotide phosphorylase exonuclease and polymerase activities on single-stranded DNA ends are modulated by RecN, SsbA and RecA proteins.
Nucleic Acids Res: 2011, 39(21);9250-61
[PubMed:21859751] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Dawit Kidane, Begoña Carrasco, Candela Manfredi, Katharina Rothmaier, Silvia Ayora, Serkalem Tadesse, Juan C Alonso, Peter L Graumann
Evidence for different pathways during horizontal gene transfer in competent Bacillus subtilis cells.
PLoS Genet: 2009, 5(9);e1000630
[PubMed:19730681] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Lyle A Simmons, Alexi I Goranov, Hajime Kobayashi, Bryan W Davies, Daniel S Yuan, Alan D Grossman, Graham C Walker
Comparison of responses to double-strand breaks between Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis reveals different requirements for SOS induction.
J Bacteriol: 2009, 191(4);1152-61
[PubMed:19060143] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Humberto Sanchez, Paula P Cardenas, Shige H Yoshimura, Kunio Takeyasu, Juan C Alonso
Dynamic structures of Bacillus subtilis RecN-DNA complexes.
Nucleic Acids Res: 2008, 36(1);110-20
[PubMed:17999999] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Jean-Christophe Meile, Ling Juan Wu, S Dusko Ehrlich, Jeff Errington, Philippe Noirot
Systematic localisation of proteins fused to the green fluorescent protein in Bacillus subtilis: identification of new proteins at the DNA replication factory.
Proteomics: 2006, 6(7);2135-46
[PubMed:16479537] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Humberto Sanchez, Dawit Kidane, M Castillo Cozar, Peter L Graumann, Juan C Alonso
Recruitment of Bacillus subtilis RecN to DNA double-strand breaks in the absence of DNA end processing.
J Bacteriol: 2006, 188(2);353-60
[PubMed:16385024] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Humberto Sanchez, Juan C Alonso
Bacillus subtilis RecN binds and protects 3'-single-stranded DNA extensions in the presence of ATP.
Nucleic Acids Res: 2005, 33(7);2343-50
[PubMed:15849320] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

B E Van Hoy, J A Hoch
Characterization of the spoIVB and recN loci of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1990, 172(3);1306-11
[PubMed:2106508] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)