Encodes topoisomerase 3alpha. Suppresses somatic crossovers. Essential for resolution of meiotic recombination intermediates.
Computational Description
topoisomerase 3alpha (TOP3A); FUNCTIONS IN: DNA topoisomerase activity, DNA topoisomerase type I activity, DNA binding, zinc ion binding, nucleic acid binding; INVOLVED IN: in 7 processes; LOCATED IN: chromosome; EXPRESSED IN: 17 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 13 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: DNA topoisomerase, type IA, zn finger (InterPro:IPR013498), DNA topoisomerase, type IA, core (InterPro:IPR000380), DNA topoisomerase, type IA, domain 2 (InterPro:IPR003601), DNA topoisomerase, type IA, DNA-binding (InterPro:IPR003602), DNA topoisomerase, type IA, central (InterPro:IPR013497), Zinc finger, GRF-type (InterPro:IPR010666), DNA topoisomerase, type IA, central region, subdomain 3 (InterPro:IPR013826), Toprim domain, subgroup (InterPro:IPR006154), DNA topoisomerase, type IA, central region, subdomain 1 (InterPro:IPR013824), Toprim domain (InterPro:IPR006171), Zinc finger, CCHC-type (InterPro:IPR001878); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: DNA topoisomerase, type IA, core (TAIR:AT2G32000.1); Has 1807 Blast hits to 1807 proteins in 277 species: Archae - 0; Bacteria - 0; Metazoa - 736; Fungi - 347; Plants - 385; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 339 (source: NCBI BLink).