Encodes a bifunctional nuclease that acts on both RNA and DNA involved in nucleic acid degradation to facilitate nucleotide and phosphate recovery during senescence. It has mismatch-specific endonuclease activity with wide recognition of single base mismatches as well as the ability to cleave indel types of mismatches (heteroduplexes with loops).
Computational Description
bifunctional nuclease i (BFN1); FUNCTIONS IN: T/G mismatch-specific endonuclease activity, endoribonuclease activity, producing 5'-phosphomonoesters, single-stranded DNA specific endodeoxyribonuclease activity, nucleic acid binding; INVOLVED IN: DNA catabolic process; LOCATED IN: endomembrane system; EXPRESSED IN: 18 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 8 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Phospholipase C/P1 nuclease, core (InterPro:IPR008947), S1/P1 nuclease (InterPro:IPR003154); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: endonuclease 4 (TAIR:AT4G21585.1); Has 701 Blast hits to 698 proteins in 200 species: Archae - 0; Bacteria - 187; Metazoa - 0; Fungi - 98; Plants - 121; Viruses - 4; Other Eukaryotes - 291 (source: NCBI BLink).
