UvrC

• Description: excinuclease ABC (subunit C)
  
  

Gene name	uvrC
Synonyms	uvrB
Essential	no
Product	excinuclease ABC (subunit C)
Function	DNA repair after UV damage
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: uvrC
Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: UvrC
MW, pI	69 kDa, 9.503
Gene length, protein length	1794 bp, 598 aa
Immediate neighbours	lysC, trxA
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
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Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

DNA repair/ recombination

This gene is a member of the following regulons

LexA regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU28490

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

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

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:
  • UvrB-UvrC PubMed

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 3C65 (5' endonuclease domain, Geobacillus stearothermophilus)

• UniProt: P14951

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: uvrC PubMed

• Expression browser: uvrC PubMed

• Sigma factor:

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

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • LexA: transcription repression PubMed]

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Reviews

James J Truglio, Deborah L Croteau, Bennett Van Houten, Caroline Kisker
Prokaryotic nucleotide excision repair: the UvrABC system.
Chem Rev: 2006, 106(2);233-52
[PubMed:16464004] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Bennett Van Houten, Deborah L Croteau, Matthew J DellaVecchia, Hong Wang, Caroline Kisker
'Close-fitting sleeves': DNA damage recognition by the UvrABC nuclease system.
Mutat Res: 2005, 577(1-2);92-117
[PubMed:15927210] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A Sancar
Mechanisms of DNA excision repair.
Science: 1994, 266(5193);1954-6
[PubMed:7801120] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Original Publications

Nora Au, Elke Kuester-Schoeck, Veena Mandava, Laura E Bothwell, Susan P Canny, Karen Chachu, Sierra A Colavito, Shakierah N Fuller, Eli S Groban, Laura A Hensley, Theresa C O'Brien, Amish Shah, Jessica T Tierney, Louise L Tomm, Thomas M O'Gara, Alexi I Goranov, Alan D Grossman, Charles M Lovett
Genetic composition of the Bacillus subtilis SOS system.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(22);7655-66
[PubMed:16267290] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

J J Lin, A Sancar
Reconstitution of nucleotide excision nuclease with UvrA and UvrB proteins from Escherichia coli and UvrC protein from Bacillus subtilis.
J Biol Chem: 1990, 265(34);21337-41
[PubMed:2174442] [WorldCat.org] (P p)

N Y Chen, J J Zhang, H Paulus
Chromosomal location of the Bacillus subtilis aspartokinase II gene and nucleotide sequence of the adjacent genes homologous to uvrC and trx of Escherichia coli.
J Gen Microbiol: 1989, 135(11);2931-40
[PubMed:2559145] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)