DB identifier | AT1G71260 | Secondary Identifier | locus:2032293 |
Name | WHIRLY 2 | Brief Description | WHIRLY 2 |
TAIR Computational Description | WHIRLY 2;(source:Araport11) |
TAIR Curator Summary | Encodes WHY2, a homolog of the potato p24 protein. It shares the conserved KGKAAL domain, a putative DNA-binding domain, with potato p24 and is localized to mitochondria and not the nucleus. WHY2 is a member of the Whirly family proteins present mainly in the plant kingdom performing various activities related to DNA metabolism. Crystal structure of Solanum tuberosum WHY2, a close homolog of Arabidopsis WHY2, reveal that Whirly proteins bind to single strand DNA to promote accurate repair of DNA double-strand breaks over an error-prone repair pathway. |
TAIR Short Description | WHIRLY 2 |
TAIR Aliases | ATWHY2, WHY2 |