| UniProt functional annotation for P10443 | |||
| UniProt code: P10443. |
| Organism: | Escherichia coli (strain K12). | |
| Taxonomy: | Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacterales; Enterobacteriaceae; Escherichia. | |
| Function: | DNA polymerase III is a complex, multichain enzyme responsible for most of the replicative synthesis in bacteria (PubMed:2932432). This DNA polymerase also exhibits 3' to 5' exonuclease activity. The alpha chain is the DNA polymerase catalytic subunit (PubMed:2932432). It is tethered to replicating DNA by the beta sliding clamp (dnaN), which confers extremely high processivity to the catalytic subunit, copying a 5.4 kb genome in 11 seconds, a speed of at least 500 nucleotides/second at 30 degrees Celsius (PubMed:2413035). {ECO:0000269|PubMed:2413035, ECO:0000269|PubMed:2932432}. | |
| Catalytic activity: | Reaction=a 2'-deoxyribonucleoside 5'-triphosphate + DNA(n) = diphosphate + DNA(n+1); Xref=Rhea:RHEA:22508, Rhea:RHEA-COMP:11130, Rhea:RHEA-COMP:11131, ChEBI:CHEBI:33019, ChEBI:CHEBI:61560, ChEBI:CHEBI:83828; EC=2.7.7.7; Evidence={ECO:0000269|PubMed:2932432}; | |
| Subunit: | The DNA polymerase III holoenzyme complex contains at least 10 different subunits organized into 3 functionally essential subassemblies: the Pol III core, the beta sliding clamp processivity factor and the clamp-loading complex. The Pol III core (subunits alpha, epsilon and theta) contains the polymerase and the 3'-5' exonuclease proofreading activities (PubMed:2040637). The polymerase is tethered to the template via the dimeric beta sliding clamp processivity factor. The clamp loader (also called gamma complex) assembles the beta sliding clamp onto the primed template and plays a central role in the organization and communication at the replication fork. The clamp- loading complex contains delta, delta', psi and chi, and 3 copies of either or both of two different DnaX proteins, gamma and tau. The DNA replisome complex has a single clamp loader (3 tau and 1 each of delta, delta', psi and chi subunits) which binds 3 Pol III cores (1 core on the leading strand and 2 on the lagging strand) each with a beta sliding clamp dimer. Additional proteins in the replisome are other copies of gamma, psi and chi, Ssb, DNA helicase and RNA primase (PubMed:20413500, PubMed:22157955). Interacts with the beta sliding- clamp subunit via the peptide Gln-Ala-Asp-Met-Phe (residues 920-924) (PubMed:11573000). {ECO:0000269|PubMed:11573000, ECO:0000269|PubMed:2040637, ECO:0000269|PubMed:20413500, ECO:0000269|PubMed:22157955}. | |
| Subcellular location: | Cytoplasm. | |
| Similarity: | Belongs to the DNA polymerase type-C family. DnaE subfamily. {ECO:0000305}. | |
| Sequence caution: | Sequence=AAA70369.1; Type=Erroneous initiation; Note=Extended N-terminus.; Evidence={ECO:0000305}; | |
Annotations taken from UniProtKB at the EBI.