DnaC

• Description: replicative DNA helicase, part of the replisome
  
  

Gene name	dnaC
Synonyms
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	replicative DNA helicase
Function	DNA replication
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: dnaC
Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: DnaC
MW, pI	50 kDa, 4.548
Gene length, protein length	1362 bp, 454 aa
Immediate neighbours	yycE, yycD
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: BSU40440

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: DnaB subfamily (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

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

• Localization: Cytoplasm (Homogeneous) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 2R6A (Geobacillus stearothermophilus), 2R6C, 2R6D, 2R6E

• UniProt: P37469

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: dnaC (according to DBTBS)

• Expression browser: dnaC PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Original publications

José P Afonso, Kiran Chintakayala, Chatrudee Suwannachart, Svetlana Sedelnikova, Kevin Giles, John B Hoyes, Panos Soultanas, John B Rafferty, Neil J Oldham
Insights into the structure and assembly of the Bacillus subtilis clamp-loader complex and its interaction with the replicative helicase.
Nucleic Acids Res: 2013, 41(9);5115-26
[PubMed:23525462] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

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)

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)

Marie-Françoise Noirot-Gros, Etienne Dervyn, Ling Juan Wu, Peggy Mervelet, Jeffery Errington, S Dusko Ehrlich, Philippe Noirot
An expanded view of bacterial DNA replication.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A: 2002, 99(12);8342-7
[PubMed:12060778] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M Bárcena, T Ruiz, L E Donate, S E Brown, N E Dixon, M Radermacher, J M Carazo
The DnaB.DnaC complex: a structure based on dimers assembled around an occluded channel.
EMBO J: 2001, 20(6);1462-8
[PubMed:11250911] [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)