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Cicer data from the Legume Information System
Description | This is the second N-terminal domain, NII domain, of the DNA polymerase III polC subunit A that is found only in Firmicutes. DNA polymerase polC-type III enzyme functions as the 'replicase' in low G + C Gram-positive bacteria [1]. Purine asymmetry is a characteristic of organisms with a heterodimeric DNA polymerase III alpha-subunit constituted by polC which probably plays a direct role in the maintenance of strand-biased gene distribution; since, among prokaryotic genomes, the distribution of genes on the leading and lagging strands of the replication fork is known to be biased [2]. It has been predicted that the N-terminus of polC folds into two globular domains, NI and NII. A predicted hydrophobic surface patch suggests this domain may be involved in protein binding [3]. This domain is associated with DNA_pol3_alpha Pfam:PF07733 and DNA_pol3_a_NI Pfam:PF14480. |
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