UvrB

• Description: excinuclease ABC (subunit B)
  
  

Gene name	uvrB
Synonyms	dinA, uvrA
Essential	no
Product	excinuclease ABC (subunit B)
Function	DNA repair after UV damage
MW, pI	76 kDa, 5.26
Gene length, protein length	1983 bp, 661 aa
Immediate neighbours	uvrA, csbA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU35170

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: uvrB family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure: 2NMV (bound to fluorescein-adducted DNA)

• UniProt: P37954

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed when no DNA damage is present (LexA) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • LexA: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

K W Winterling, D Chafin, J J Hayes, J Sun, A S Levine, R E Yasbin, R Woodgate
The Bacillus subtilis DinR binding site: redefinition of the consensus sequence.
J Bacteriol: 1998, 180(8);2201-11
[PubMed:9555905] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

C M Lovett, K C Cho, T M O'Gara
Purification of an SOS repressor from Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1993, 175(21);6842-9
[PubMed:8226626] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)