TopA

• Description: DNA topoisomerase I
  
  

Gene name	topA
Synonyms	topI
Essential	no
Product	DNA topoisomerase I
Function	replication
MW, pI	78 kDa, 9.023
Gene length, protein length	2073 bp, 691 aa
Immediate neighbours	dprA, trmFO
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU16120

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP-independent breakage of single-stranded DNA, followed by passage and rejoining (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: prokaryotic type I/III topoisomerase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): TopB, one of the two proteins has to be present for viability PubMed

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P39814

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: