DnaI

• Description: primosome component (helicase loader)
  
  

Gene name	dnaI
Synonyms	ytxA, dnaY
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	primosome component (helicase loader)
Function	DNA replication
MW, pI	35 kDa, 5.743
Gene length, protein length	933 bp, 311 aa
Immediate neighbours	ytxB, dnaB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU28980

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: DnaB-DnaI, DnaC-DnaI PubMed

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot), Cytoplasm (Homogeneous) PubMed forms foci, close to oriC PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P06567

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Karin V Loscha, Kristaps Jaudzems, Charikleia Ioannou, Xun-Cheng Su, Flynn R Hill, Gottfried Otting, Nicholas E Dixon, Edvards Liepinsh
A novel zinc-binding fold in the helicase interaction domain of the Bacillus subtilis DnaI helicase loader.
Nucleic Acids Res: 2009, 37(7);2395-404
[PubMed:19255093] [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)

Marion Velten, Stephen McGovern, Stéphanie Marsin, S Dusko Ehrlich, Philippe Noirot, Patrice Polard
A two-protein strategy for the functional loading of a cellular replicative DNA helicase.
Mol Cell: 2003, 11(4);1009-20
[PubMed:12718886] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

P Soultanas
A functional interaction between the putative primosomal protein DnaI and the main replicative DNA helicase DnaB in Bacillus.
Nucleic Acids Res: 2002, 30(4);966-74
[PubMed:11842108] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Y Imai, N Ogasawara, D Ishigo-Oka, R Kadoya, T Daito, S Moriya
Subcellular localization of Dna-initiation proteins of Bacillus subtilis: evidence that chromosome replication begins at either edge of the nucleoids.
Mol Microbiol: 2000, 36(5);1037-48
[PubMed:10844689] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)