DNA polymerase alpha 49 kD subunit (DNA primase small subunit, PRIM1)

Function

• along with PRIM2, catalyzes RNA primase reaction

Structure

• bound Zn+2 is not a cofactor
• it is bound to a Zn+2 knuckle motif that may be involved in sequence recognition & the binding of ssDNA (putative)

More general terms

• protein subunit
• zinc finger protein

Component of

• primase

Database

• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/176635
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P49642.html