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  • Title: Evidence for a Micrococcus luteus gene homologous to uvrB of Escherichia coli.
    Author: Shiota S, Nakayama H.
    Journal: Mol Gen Genet; 1988 Jul; 213(1):21-9. PubMed ID: 2851707.
    Abstract:
    Restriction fragments of Micrococcus luteus DNA that contained the gene defined by the mutation of an excision repair-deficient mutant, UVsN1, were cloned from both the parental and mutant strains with the Escherichia coli host-vector system. The wild-type fragment was able to reverse the multiple sensitivity of the mutant to ultraviolet, mitomycin C, and 4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide by one-step transformation. Determination of the nucleotide sequences revealed an open reading frame potentially coding for a protein of 709 amino acid residues, within which the mutation was identified as a CG----TA transition causing a change from serine to phenylalanine. The putative product of the open reading frame showed an extensive amino acid sequence homology to the E. coli UvrB protein comprising 673 residues; the homologous region extended over the greater parts of both polypeptides, in which 55% and 17% of the 659 pairs of aligned amino acids were accounted for by conserved residues and conservative substitutions, respectively. This indicates that the gene defined by the UVsN1 mutation represents a homolog of the E. coli uvrB gene, implying the presence in M. luteus of an enzyme complex homologous to the E. coli UvrABC excinuclease.
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