lmmol · Proteins

Tripartite terminase subunit 3

Also known as: TRM3, UL89

Function

Component of the molecular motor that translocates viral genomic DNA in empty capsid during DNA packaging. Forms a tripartite terminase complex together with TRM1 and TRM2 in the host cytoplasm. Once the complex reaches the host nucleus, it interacts with the capsid portal vertex. This portal forms a ring in which genomic DNA is translocated into the capsid. TRM3 carries an RNase H-like nuclease activity that plays an important role for the cleavage of concatemeric viral DNA into unit length genomes.

Classification

Family (Pfam)
PF02499 DNA_pack_C, PF02500 DNA_pack_N
InterPro
DNA_pack_C, DNA_pack_C_sf, DNA_pack_N, HSV_TRM3, P-loop_NTPase
Functional cluster
Phosphoribosyltransferases & related

Experimental structures · PDB · 3

A predicted model is available from AlphaFold.

Gene Ontology · 4

Drugs targeting this protein · 1

Related proteins · sequence + function similarity

Literature · 5 cited papers

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