mus309, DmBlm, Ku70, Bloom syndrome helicase ortholog, Bloom helicase
RecQ helicase - repairs replication fork damage and double-strand breaks in mitosis - promotes repair through non-crossover mechanisms - dissolution of double Holliday junctions - promotes meiotic crossover patterning and homolog disjunction
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AlphaFold produces a per-residue confidence score (pLDDT) between 0 and 100. Some regions with low pLDDT may be unstructured in isolation.
Gene model reviewed during 5.47
4.835 (compiled cDNA)
2.4 (northern blot)
2.1 (northern blot)
There is only one protein coding transcript and one polypeptide associated with this gene
1487 (aa)
631 (aa); 65-70 (kD observed); 72 (kD predicted)
631 (aa); 69 (kD observed)
Monomer. Homodimer (via N-terminus). Homotetramer (via N-terminus); dimer of dimers. Homohexamer (via N-terminus). Self-association negatively regulates DNA unwinding amplitude and rate. Oligomer forms dissociate into monomer in presence of ATP.
The N-terminal region mediates dimerization and homooligomerization. Both the helicase ATP-binding domain and the helicase C-terminal domain form intramolecular interactions with the HRDC domain in a ATP-dependent manner. The HRDC domain is required for single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) and DNA Holliday junction binding.
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The testis specificity index was calculated from modENCODE tissue expression data by Vedelek et al., 2018 to indicate the degree of testis enrichment compared to other tissues. Scores range from -2.52 (underrepresented) to 5.2 (very high testis bias).
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3-48.7
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For each fully sequenced cDNA the DGRC maintains various forms of the cDNA (e.g tagged or untagged) in several different host vectors for subsequent cloning and expression in Drosophila and Drosophila cell lines.
polyclonal
mus309 suppresses single strand annealing between divergent repeats (termed homologous SA), thereby preventing potentially deleterious recombination events.
mus309 mutants are severely impaired in their ability to carry out repair DNA synthesis during synthesis-dependent strand annealing in double-strand break repair.
Designation as "DmKu70" was in error.
mus309 gene product is required for the repair of P-element induced double-strand DNA chromosome breaks, both in the presence and absence of a homologous sequence. Plasmid based P-element mobility assay demonstrates that the processing of double strand DNA breaks after P-element excision is severely affected in mus309 mutant embryos.
Source for merge of: mus309 blm
It had previously been suggested that mus309 corresponds to Irbp (FBrf0086898). Detailed deletion mapping suggests that this was incorrect and mus309 actually corresponds to blm, which is supported by the identification of mutations in the blm coding sequence for two mus309 alleles.
mus309 stated to correspond to Irbp. Subsequent information suggests that this is not the case (see Kusano et al., 2001, Science 291(5513): 2600--2602).
'Note added in proof' in FBrf0080432 was in error; mus309, l(3)87Ae and lds are not, in fact, allelic.
Source for identity of: Blm mus309
mus309' renamed to 'Blm' to reflect the preferred usage in the primary literature (see FBrf0155463, FBrf0216460, FBrf0193899, FBrf0207350, FBrf0107832, FBrf0135945, FBrf0180647, FBrf0200344, FBrf0179341, FBrf0191828, FBrf0202212, FBrf0193858, FBrf0209368). Moreover, symbols with 'mus' prefixes (for 'mutagen-sensitive') are deemed placeholders, to be replaced with a more meaningful symbol when available.
