UniProt functional annotation for P06956

UniProt code: P06956.

Organism: Escherichia phage P1 (Bacteriophage P1).
Taxonomy: Viruses; Duplodnaviria; Heunggongvirae; Uroviricota; Caudoviricetes; Caudovirales; Myoviridae; Punavirus.
 
Function: Catalyzes site-specific recombination between two 34-base- pair LOXP sites. Its role is to maintain the phage genome as a monomeric unit-copy plasmid in the lysogenic state.
 
Subunit: Homotetramer when bound to DNA.
Similarity: Belongs to the 'phage' integrase family. {ECO:0000305}.

Annotations taken from UniProtKB at the EBI.