DNA end degradation evasion by virus (kw:KW-1256)

Several types of bacteria including Escherichia coli or Salmonella typhimurium encode enzymes responsible for the degradation of free DNA ends. When functioning in their exonuclease mode, helicase/nuclease proteins such as bacterial RecBCD (also called exonuclease V) or AddAB degrade any free DNA ends as well as linear dsDNA products resulting from restriction Type II cleavage .

image

Any bacterial virus that exposes free DNA ends as part of its life cycle must find a means to evade destruction by these host nucleases. Bacterial viruses have elaborated different strategies to circumvent degradation of their free DNA ends. For example, bacteriophage T4 gene product 2 (gp2) is able to interact with viral DNA ends to prevent recognition of the RecBCD complex and subsequent cleavage of the DNA. Gam protein of bacteriophage lambda also inhibits the interaction between RecBCD and viral genome ends.

Matching UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries

(all links/actions below point to uniprot.org website)

6 entries grouped by protein

1 entry

DNA circularization protein N (64 kDa virion protein) (Gene product 43) (gp43) (Gene product N) (gpN)

CIRCN_BPMU
Escherichia phage Mu (Bacteriophage Mu) reference strain

1 entry

Terminal DNA protecting protein (Gene product 64) (gp64) (Head protein Gp2)

DNAPR_BPT4
Enterobacteria phage T4 (Bacteriophage T4) reference strain

2 entries

Host-nuclease inhibitor protein gam

Select_allDeselect_all
GAM_BPMU
Escherichia phage Mu (Bacteriophage Mu) reference strain

Putative DNA ends protecting protein gam (Gene product 10) (gp10)

GAM_LAMBD
Escherichia phage lambda (Bacteriophage lambda) reference strain

2 entries

Protein Ku (Cd-Ku) (Gp87)

Select_allDeselect_all
KU_BPMCO
Mycobacterium phage Corndog (Mycobacteriophage Corndog) reference strain
KU_BPMOM
Mycobacterium phage Omega (Mycobacteriophage Omega) reference strain

Protein Ku (Gp206) (Omega-Ku)