UniProt functional annotation for P04527

UniProt code: P04527.

Organism: Enterobacteria phage T4 (Bacteriophage T4).
Taxonomy: Viruses; Duplodnaviria; Heunggongvirae; Uroviricota; Caudoviricetes; Caudovirales; Myoviridae; Tevenvirinae; Tequatrovirus.
 
Function: Functions as a sliding-clamp-loading ATPase enzyme during DNA replication. Required for elongation of primed templates by controlling the polymerase processivity. Progressive binding of ATPs triggers a conformational change in the complex that inhibits ATPase activity.
 
Subunit: Heterodimer of gp44 and gp62 that forms a complex with gp45 in the presence of ATP.

Annotations taken from UniProtKB at the EBI.