title: Deletion mutagenesis of the Escherichia coli UvrA protein localizes domains for DNA binding, damage recognition, and protein-protein interactions.
abstract: The UvrA protein is the DNA binding and damage recognition subunit of the damage-specific UvrABC endonuclease. In addition, it is an ATPase/GTPase, and the binding energy of ATP is linked to dimerization of the UvrA protein. Furthermore, the UvrA protein interacts with the UvrB protein to modulate its activities, both in solution and in association with DNA, where the UvrAB complex possesses a helicase activity. The domains of the UvrA protein that sponsor each of these activities were localized within the protein by studying the in vitro properties of a set of purified deletion mutants of the UvrA protein. A region located within the first 230 amino acids was found to contain the minimal region necessary for interactions with UvrB, the UvrA dimerization interface was localized to within the first 680 amino acids, and the DNA binding domain lies within the first 900 amino acids of the 940-amino acid UvrA protein. Two damage recognition domains were detected. The first domain, which coincides with the DNA binding region, is required to detect the damage. The second domain, located on or near the C-terminal 40 amino acids, stabilizes the protein-DNA complex when damage is encountered.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Claassen
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Grossman
mesh_terms: D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D001665:Binding Sites; D002872:Chromosome Deletion; D004249:DNA Damage; D004265:DNA Helicases; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000528:radiation effects; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000528:radiation effects; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D005816:Genetic Complementation Test; D005998:Glycine; D007700:Kinetics; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D008961:Models, Structural; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016296:Mutagenesis; D011485:Protein Binding; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; C058093:UvrB protein, E coli; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; C068631:UvrA protein, E coli; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases; D004265:DNA Helicases; D005998:Glycine