Summary
Archaeo-eukaryotic primase
This clan includes the small subunit of 2 and eukaryotic DNA primase, and primase-helicase proteins from bacteriophages and plasmids. All known cellular life forms use primases to synthesis a short RNA primer which is extended during DNA replication by a polymerase. Bacterial DNA primase adopts a different fold to archaeal and eukaryotic primases and belongs to a different superfamily.
This clan contains 3 families and the total number of domains in the clan is 2779. The clan was built by J Mistry.
Literature references
- Iyer LM, Koonin EV, Leipe DD, Aravind L; , Nucleic Acids Res. 2005;33:3875-3896.: Origin and evolution of the archaeo-eukaryotic primase superfamily and related palm-domain proteins: structural insights and new members. PUBMED:16027112 EPMC:16027112
Members
This clan contains the following 3 member families:
DNA_primase_S PPL4 ReplicaseExternal database links
SCOP: | 56748 |
Domain organisation
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Alignments
The table below shows the number of occurrences of each domain throughout the sequence database. More...
Pfam family | Num. domains | Alignment |
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DNA_primase_S (PF01896) | 2620 (94.3%) | View |
Replicase (PF03090) | 129 (4.6%) | View |
PPL4 (PF18188) | 30 (1.1%) | View |
Total: 3 | Total: 2779 | Clan alignment |
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Family relationships
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Species distribution
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Structures
For those sequences which have a structure in the Protein DataBank, we use the mapping between UniProt, PDB and Pfam coordinate systems from the MSD group, to allow us to map Pfam domains onto UniProt three-dimensional structures. The table below shows the mapping between the Pfam families in this clan, the corresponding UniProt entries, and the region of the three-dimensional structures that are available for that sequence.
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