Summary: DNA polymerase III beta subunit, central domain
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A dimer of the beta subunit of DNA polymerase beta forms a ring which encircles duplex DNA. Each monomer contains three domains of identical topology and DNA clamp fold.
Literature references
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Kong XP, Onrust R, O'Donnell M, Kuriyan J; , Cell 1992;69:425-437.: Three-dimensional structure of the beta subunit of E. coli DNA polymerase III holoenzyme: a sliding DNA clamp. PUBMED:1349852 EPMC:1349852
Internal database links
SCOOP: | DNA_pol3_beta |
Similarity to PfamA using HHSearch: | DNA_pol3_beta |
External database links
SCOP: | 2pol |
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InterPro entry IPR022637
DNA polymerase III is a complex, multichain holoenzyme responsible for most of the replicative synthesis in bacteria [PUBMED:8548826]. It functions by adding nucleotide triphosphate (dNTP) residues to the 5'-end of a growing DNA chain, using a complementary DNA as template. The elongation factor beta-clamp, also called beta subunit, is part of the DNA polymerase III holoenzyme. However, beta-clamp is not attached to polymerase III permanently like the other subunits. It is loaded on the DNA, by clamp loader, a subunit of DNA Pol III [PUBMED:27499105].
The beta clamp forms a ring shaped dimer that encircles dsDNA (sliding clamp) in bacteria. The bacterial beta clamp is a homodimer; each monomer consists of three globular domains to yield a six-domain ring [PUBMED:18191219]. It is structurally similar to the trimeric ring formed by proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) (found in eukaryotes and archaea) and the processivity factor (found in bacteriophages T4 and RB69) [PUBMED:1358275]. This structural correspondence further substantiates the mechanistic connection between eukaryotic and prokaryotic DNA replication that has been suggested on biochemical grounds.
This entry describes the central domain of the beta sliding clamp.
Gene Ontology
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Cellular component | DNA polymerase III complex (GO:0009360) |
Molecular function | 3'-5' exonuclease activity (GO:0008408) |
DNA-directed DNA polymerase activity (GO:0003887) | |
Biological process | DNA replication (GO:0006260) |
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Pfam Clan
This family is a member of clan DNA_clamp (CL0060), which has the following description:
Sliding DNA clamps are ring-shaped proteins that allow DNA polymerase to achieve high processivity during chromosome replication by tethering the polymerase catalytic subunit to DNA. All of the structures share a 12-fold symmetry around the ring consisting of a simple structural repeat, though there is structural divergence in some of the repeats. Bacterial beta-clamps contain six repeats per subunit with two subunits per ring while the eukaryotic and bacteriophage clamps contain four repeats per subunit with three subunits per ring. Pairs of these repeats form a domain, which has been termed the 'processivity fold'; thus the ring of the sliding clamp contains six domains and therefore is often described as having 6-fold symmetry. A structural representative of a fourth family of processivity fold proteins, namely the herpes simplex virus UL42 protein, is also available. UL42 does not form a ring-shaped clamp, however, but rather functions as a monomer and interacts with DNA quite differently than do sliding clamps; it has been suggested that UL42 resembles a primitive ancestor of sliding clamps [2].
The clan contains the following 13 members:
DNA_pol3_beta DNA_pol3_beta_2 DNA_pol3_beta_3 DNA_PPF gp45-slide_C Herpes_DNAp_acc Herpes_PAP Herpes_UL42 Hus1 PCNA_C PCNA_N Rad1 Rad9Alignments
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Curation
Seed source: | Pfam-B_631 (release 2.1) |
Previous IDs: | none |
Type: | Domain |
Sequence Ontology: | SO:0000417 |
Author: |
Bateman A |
Number in seed: | 12 |
Number in full: | 7489 |
Average length of the domain: | 117.00 aa |
Average identity of full alignment: | 28 % |
Average coverage of the sequence by the domain: | 31.50 % |
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IMS_C DNA_pol3_delta DNA_pol3_beta_3 DNA_pol3_beta DNA_pol3_beta_2 DNA_pol3_beta DNA_pol3_beta_3Structures
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