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
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 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:
  • stimulates DnaG primase activity PubMed

• 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
  • DnaE-DnaC PubMed
  • DnaG-DnaC PubMed

• Localization: Cytoplasm (Homogeneous) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:
  • 2R6A (Geobacillus stearothermophilus), 2R6C, 2R6D, 2R6E
  • 4M4W (the DnaC-DnaI-DnaG complex) PubMed

• 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

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

Olivier Rannou, Emmanuelle Le Chatelier, Marilynn A Larson, Hamid Nouri, Bérengère Dalmais, Charles Laughton, Laurent Jannière, Panos Soultanas
Functional interplay of DnaE polymerase, DnaG primase and DnaC helicase within a ternary complex, and primase to polymerase hand-off during lagging strand DNA replication in Bacillus subtilis.
Nucleic Acids Res: 2013, 41(10);5303-20
[PubMed:23563155] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

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)