UniProt functional annotation for Q10423

UniProt code: Q10423.

Organism: Schizosaccharomyces pombe (strain 972 / ATCC 24843) (Fission yeast).
Taxonomy: Eukaryota; Fungi; Dikarya; Ascomycota; Taphrinomycotina; Schizosaccharomycetes; Schizosaccharomycetales; Schizosaccharomycetaceae; Schizosaccharomyces.
 
Function: Capable of resolving Holliday junctions. Specific for 4-way junctions. Seems to be important for the maintenance of mitochondrial DNA. Cleaves fixed junctions at the point of strand exchange. Cleaves after 5'-CT-3' and 5'-TT-3' sequences. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:10954073, ECO:0000269|PubMed:9343409}.
 
Catalytic activity: Reaction=Endonucleolytic cleavage at a junction such as a reciprocal single-stranded crossover between two homologous DNA duplexes (Holliday junction).; EC=3.1.22.4; Evidence={ECO:0000269|PubMed:9343409};
Subunit: Homodimer. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:9343409}.
Subcellular location: Mitochondrion {ECO:0000269|PubMed:10954073}.

Annotations taken from UniProtKB at the EBI.