FEATURES

FAMILY

DESCRIPTION

Also known as SMC4_YEAST, SMC4. Central component of the condensin complex, a complex required for conversion of interphase chromatin into mitotic-like condense chromosomes. The condensin complex probably introduces positive supercoils into relaxed DNA in the presence of type I topoisomerases and converts nicked DNA into positive knotted forms in the presence of type II topoisomerases. Forms a heterodimer with SMC2. Component of the condensin complex, which contains the SMC2 and SMC4 heterodimer, and three non SMC subunits that probably regulate the complex: BRN1, YCS4 and YCG1/YCS5.

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enzyme classification

SMC4

Structural maintenance of chromosomes protein 4

SMC4

Molecular Synopsis