title: Properties of the Escherichia coli RuvA and RuvB proteins involved in DNA repair, recombination and mutagenesis.
abstract: The ruvA and ruvB genes constitute an operon, which is regulated by the SOS system and involved in DNA repair, recombination and mutagenesis. RuvA protein binds to both single-stranded and double-stranded DNA. RuvB protein has weak ATPase activity. RuvA bound to DNA greatly enhances ATPase activity of RuvB. UV-irradiation to supercoiled DNA further enhances the stimulatory effect of RuvA on the RuvB ATPase activity. In the presence of ATP the RuvA-RuvB complex has an activity that renatures cruciform structures formed by heating and gradually cooling supercoiled DNA with an inverted repeat. These findings suggest that the RuvA-RuvB complex interacts with an irregular conformation in damaged DNA and induces conformational changes in DNA using energy provided by ATP hydrolysis, so that it facilitates DNA repair, recombination and error prone replication.
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Chemotherapy, Osaka University, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shinagawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shiba
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Iwasaki
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Makino
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takahagi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nakata
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D004265:DNA Helicases; D004260:DNA Repair; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics*; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016296:Mutagenesis; D011995:Recombination, Genetic
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; C061260:RuvB protein, Bacteria; C071059:Holliday junction DNA helicase, E coli; D004265:DNA Helicases