DnaI

• Description: primosome component (helicase loader), part of the replisome
  
  

Gene name	dnaI
Synonyms	ytxA, dnaY
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	primosome component (helicase loader)
Function	DNA replication
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: dnaI
Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: DnaI
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)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

DNA replication, essential genes

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:

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• Interactions:
  • DnaB-DnaI PubMed, DnaC-DnaI PubMed
  • part of the replisome: PolC-HolA-HolB-DnaX-DnaN-DnaG-DnaC-DnaI-DnaD-SsbA-DnaE-PriA-DnaB PubMed
  • part of the primosome: DnaA-DnaG-DnaC-DnaI-DnaD-DnaB PubMed

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

Database entries

• Structure: 2K7R (N-terminal domain)

• UniProt: P06567

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Expression browser: dnaI PubMed

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

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• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Reviews

Geoffrey S Briggs, Wiep Klaas Smits, Panos Soultanas
Chromosomal replication initiation machinery of low-G+C-content Firmicutes.
J Bacteriol: 2012, 194(19);5162-70
[PubMed:22797751] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Original publications

Glenn M Sanders, H Garry Dallmann, Charles S McHenry
Reconstitution of the B. subtilis replisome with 13 proteins including two distinct replicases.
Mol Cell: 2010, 37(2);273-81
[PubMed:20122408] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Wiep Klaas Smits, Alexi I Goranov, Alan D Grossman
Ordered association of helicase loader proteins with the Bacillus subtilis origin of replication in vivo.
Mol Microbiol: 2010, 75(2);452-61
[PubMed:19968790] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Kuang-Lei Tsai, Yu-Hua Lo, Yuh-Ju Sun, Chwan-Deng Hsiao
Molecular interplay between the replicative helicase DnaC and its loader protein DnaI from Geobacillus kaustophilus.
J Mol Biol: 2009, 393(5);1056-69
[PubMed:19744498] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

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)

C Bruand, M Farache, S McGovern, S D Ehrlich, P Polard
DnaB, DnaD and DnaI proteins are components of the Bacillus subtilis replication restart primosome.
Mol Microbiol: 2001, 42(1);245-55
[PubMed:11679082] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P 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)