SSB as an organizer/mobilizer of genome maintenance complexes

RD Shereda, AG Kozlov, TM Lohman… - Critical reviews in …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
When duplex DNA is altered in almost any way (replicated, recombined, or repaired), single
strands of DNA are usually intermediates, and single-stranded DNA binding (SSB) proteins …

Regulation of bacterial RecA protein function

MM Cox - Critical reviews in biochemistry and molecular biology, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
The RecA protein is a recombinase functioning in recombinational DNA repair in bacteria.
RecA is regulated at many levels. The expression of the recA gene is regulated within the …

Origin and evolution of the archaeo-eukaryotic primase superfamily and related palm-domain proteins: structural insights and new members

LM Iyer, EV Koonin, DD Leipe… - Nucleic acids research, 2005 - academic.oup.com
We report an in-depth computational study of the protein sequences and structures of the
superfamily of archaeo-eukaryotic primases (AEPs). This analysis greatly expands the range …

Interaction with the carboxy-terminal tip of SSB is critical for RecG function in E. coli

NJ Bonde, C Henry, EA Wood, MM Cox… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In Escherichia coli, the single-stranded DNA-binding protein (SSB) acts as a genome
maintenance organizational hub by interacting with multiple DNA metabolism proteins …

PriA helicase and SSB interact physically and functionally

CJ Cadman, P McGlynn - Nucleic acids research, 2004 - academic.oup.com
PriA helicase is the major DNA replication restart initiator in Escherichia coli and acts to
reload the replicative helicase DnaB back onto the chromosome at repaired replication forks …

The C-terminal domain of the bacterial SSB protein acts as a DNA maintenance hub at active chromosome replication forks

A Costes, F Lecointe, S McGovern… - PLoS …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
We have investigated in vivo the role of the carboxy-terminal domain of the Bacillus subtilis
Single-Stranded DNA Binding protein (SSBCter) as a recruitment platform at active …

A central role for SSB in Escherichia coli RecQ DNA helicase function

RD Shereda, DA Bernstein, JL Keck - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2007 - ASBMB
RecQ DNA helicases are critical components of DNA replication, recombination, and repair
machinery in all eukaryotes and bacteria. Eukaryotic RecQ helicases are known to associate …

Bacterial single-stranded DNA-binding proteins are phosphorylated on tyrosine

I Mijakovic, D Petranovic, B Macek, T Cepo… - Nucleic acids …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Single-stranded DNA-binding proteins (SSBs) are required for repair, recombination and
replication in all organisms. Eukaryotic SSBs are regulated by phosphorylation on serine …

The C‐terminal domain of full‐length E. coli SSB is disordered even when bound to DNA

SN Savvides, S Raghunathan, K Fütterer… - Protein …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The crystal structure of full‐length homotetrameric single‐stranded DNA (ssDNA)‐binding
protein from Escherichia coli (SSB) has been determined to 3.3 Å resolution and reveals that …

The mechanism of action of the SSB interactome reveals it is the first OB‐fold family of genome guardians in prokaryotes

PR Bianco - Protein science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The single‐stranded DNA binding protein (SSB) is essential to all aspects of DNA
metabolism in bacteria. This protein performs two distinct, but closely intertwined and …