UniProt functional annotation for P04525

UniProt code: P04525.

Organism: Enterobacteria phage T4 (Bacteriophage T4).
Taxonomy: Viruses; Duplodnaviria; Heunggongvirae; Uroviricota; Caudoviricetes; Caudovirales; Myoviridae; Tevenvirinae; Tequatrovirus.
 
Function: Replisome processivity clamp subunit that increases the processivity of DNA synthesis. Responsible for tethering the catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase to DNA during high-speed replication. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:10535942}.
 
Subunit: Homotrimer (PubMed:26735934). Part of the replicase complex that includes the DNA polymerase, the polymerase clamp, the clamp loader complex, the single-stranded DNA binding protein, the primase, the helicase and the helicase assembly factor (PubMed:16800624, PubMed:26102578). Interacts with the DNA polymerase; this interaction constitutes the polymerase holoenzyme (PubMed:8475061). {ECO:0000269|PubMed:16800624, ECO:0000269|PubMed:26102578, ECO:0000269|PubMed:26735934, ECO:0000269|PubMed:8475061}.
Similarity: Belongs to the tevenvirinae DNA polymerase processivity component family. {ECO:0000305}.

Annotations taken from UniProtKB at the EBI.