Protein: Primer terminal protein (TP) (DNA terminal protein) (Gene product 3) (gp3) (Protein p3) (Terminal protein) (P03681)
Organism: Bacillus phage phi29 (Bacteriophage phi-29)
Function: Acts as a primer for DNA elongation during viral genomic replication. Acts as the small terminase protein during packaging. Recruits the phage DNA polymerase to the bacterial nucleoid. Primer terminal protein (TP) is covalently linked to the 5'-ends of both strands of the genome through a phosphodiester bond between the beta-hydroxyl group of a serine residue and the 5'-phosphate of the terminal deoxyadenylate (dAMP). To start replication, the DNA polymerase forms a heterodimer with a free TP that recognizes the replication origins at both 5' ends of the linear chromosome, and initiates replication using as primer the OH-group of Ser-232 of the TP. Since the polymerase initiates the replication on the second thymine, the TP-dAMP initiation product slides backwards to recover the template information of the first nucleotide.
Subcellular location: Virion {ECO:0000269|PubMed:14763988}. Host nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:23091024}. Note=Associates with the host bacterial nucleoid through its N-terminal region. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:20823229}.
Sequence: MARSPRIRIKDNDKAEYARLVKNTKAKIARTKKKYGVDLTAEIDIPDLDSFETRAQFNKWKEQASSFTNRANMRYQFEKNAYGVVASKAKIAEIERNTKEVQRLVDEKIKAMKDKEYYAGGKPQGTIEQRIAMTSPAHVTGINRPHDFDFSKVRSYSRLRTLEESMEMRTDPQYYEKKMIQLQLNFIKSVEGSFNSFDAADELIEELKKIPPDDFYELFLRISEISFEEFDSEGNTVENVEGNVYKILSYLEQYRRGDFDLSLKGF
InterPro domains: - IPR037216: DNA terminal protein Gp3 superfamily (homologous_superfamily) [71-259]
- IPR043124: DNA terminal protein Gp3, C-terminal (homologous_superfamily) [172-266]
- IPR008770: DNA terminal protein Gp3 (family) [1-266]
Gene Ontology annotations:
Molecular Function (MF): GO:0003674 (molecular function), GO:0005488 (binding), GO:0005515 (protein binding)
Biological Process (BP): GO:0008150 (biological process), GO:0008152 (metabolic process), GO:0009987 (cellular process), GO:0016032 (viral process), GO:0009058 (biosynthetic process), GO:0044237 (cellular metabolic process), GO:0019058 (viral life cycle), GO:0071704 (organic substance metabolic process), GO:0044238 (primary metabolic process), GO:0006807 (nitrogen compound metabolic process), GO:0019079 (viral genome replication), GO:0044249 (cellular biosynthetic process), GO:0006725 (cellular aromatic compound metabolic process), GO:0034641 (cellular nitrogen compound metabolic process), GO:1901360 (organic cyclic compound metabolic process), GO:1901576 (organic substance biosynthetic process), GO:0039693 (viral DNA genome replication), GO:0006139 (nucleobase-containing compound metabolic process), GO:0044260 (cellular macromolecule metabolic process), GO:0043170 (macromolecule metabolic process), GO:0046483 (heterocycle metabolic process), GO:0006259 (DNA metabolic process), GO:0009059 (macromolecule biosynthetic process), GO:1901362 (organic cyclic compound biosynthetic process), GO:0044271 (cellular nitrogen compound biosynthetic process), GO:0090304 (nucleic acid metabolic process), GO:0034654 (nucleobase-containing compound biosynthetic process), GO:0019438 (aromatic compound biosynthetic process), GO:0018130 (heterocycle biosynthetic process), GO:0071897 (DNA biosynthetic process)
Cellular Component (CC): GO:0005575 (cellular component), GO:0032991 (protein-containing complex), GO:0005667 (transcription regulator complex), GO:0017053 (transcription repressor complex)