This protein family is found in many different bacterial species but is of viral origin. The protein forms an oligomer and functions as a processive alkaline exonuclease that digests linear double-stranded DNA in a Mg(2+)-dependent reaction, It has a ...
This protein family is found in many different bacterial species but is of viral origin. The protein forms an oligomer and functions as a processive alkaline exonuclease that digests linear double-stranded DNA in a Mg(2+)-dependent reaction, It has a preference for 5'-phosphorylated DNA ends. It thus forms part of the two-component SynExo viral recombinase functional unit [1].
Lambda-exonuclease from Bacteriophage lambda is a 5'->3' exonuclease. It catalyses the hydrolysis of one strand of double stranded DNA in a 5' to 3' direction, leaving single stranded DNA. This is involved in DNA replication, recombination and repair. Once started on a reaction, lambda-exonuclease will continue to hydrolyse until either the DNA strand ends, or the enzyme dissociates into monomers.
Defined by 6 residues: GLU:A-95 [auth A-93]GLU:A-104 [auth A-102]ASP:A-111 [auth A-109]GLU:A-131 [auth A-129]LEU:A-132 [auth A-130]LYS:A-133 [auth A-131]