RadA

{{Short description|DNA repair and recombination protein}}

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| Organism = Saccharolobus solfataricus
(strain ATCC 35092)

| TaxID = 273057

| Symbol = radA

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| EntrezGene = 72912053

| HomoloGene = 2155

| PDB = 2Z43

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| RefSeqProtein = WP_009990512.1

| UniProt = Q55075

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| Chromosome = Genomic

| EntrezChromosome = NZ_CP050869.1

| GenLoc_start = 2411238

| GenLoc_end = 2412504

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The DNA repair and recombination protein RadA is an archaeal homolog of the bacterial RecA protein and the eukaryotic Rad51 protein, playing a crucial role in homologous recombination and the maintenance of genomic stability by facilitating the repair of DNA double-strand breaks.{{cite journal | vauthors = Seitz EM, Brockman JP, Sandler SJ, Clark AJ, Kowalczykowski SC | title = RadA protein is an archaeal RecA protein homolog that catalyzes DNA strand exchange | journal = Genes & Development | volume = 12 | issue = 9 | pages = 1248–53 | date = May 1998 | pmid = 9573041 | pmc = 316774 | doi = 10.1101/gad.12.9.1248 }}