RadA
Appearance
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Organism | |||||||
Symbol | radA | ||||||
Entrez | 72912053 | ||||||
HomoloGene | 2155 | ||||||
PDB | 2Z43 | ||||||
RefSeq (Prot) | WP_009990512.1 | ||||||
UniProt | Q55075 | ||||||
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Chromosome | Genomic: 2.41 - 2.41 Mb | ||||||
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The DNA repair and recombination protein RadA is an archaeal homolog of the bacterial RecA protein and the eukaryotic Rad51 protein, playing a crucial role in homologous recombination and the maintenance of genomic stability by facilitating the repair of DNA double-strand breaks.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Seitz EM, Brockman JP, Sandler SJ, Clark AJ, Kowalczykowski SC (May 1998). "RadA protein is an archaeal RecA protein homolog that catalyzes DNA strand exchange". Genes & Development. 12 (9): 1248–53. doi:10.1101/gad.12.9.1248. PMC 316774. PMID 9573041.