UvrA

• Description: excinuclease ABC (subunit A)
  
  

Gene name	uvrA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	excinuclease ABC (subunit A)
Function	DNA repair after UV damage
MW, pI	105 kDa, 5.843
Gene length, protein length	2871 bp, 957 aa
Immediate neighbours	yvzB, uvrB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU35160

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

DNA repair/ recombination

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: UvrA subfamily (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: Mfd-UvrA PubMed, UvrA-UvrB PubMed

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure: 2R6F (Geobacillus stearothermophilus)

• UniProt: O34863

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: uvrB-uvrA (according to DBTBS)

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • induced upon DNA damage (LexA) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • LexA: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• mutant: GP1175 (uvrAB::ermC) (available in the Stülke lab)

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: