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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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: 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: UvrA-UvrB PubMed, UvrB-UvrC PubMed, UvrB interacts sequentially with UvrA and UvrC, a complex of the three proteins was never observed PubMed

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure: 2NMV (bound to fluorescein-adducted DNA); 2D7D ternary complex involving UvrB* (a C-terminal truncation of full-length UvrB), a polythymine trinucleotide and ADP PubMed

• UniProt: P37954

• 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: