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SUBMITTER: Xu L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2939405 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of nucleic acids 20100831
Escherichia coli DNA photolyase is an enzyme that repairs the major kind of UV-induced lesions, cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD) in DNA utilizing 350-450 nm light as energy source. The enzyme has very high photo-repair efficiency (the quantum yield of the reaction is ~0.85), which is significantly greater than many model compounds that mimic photolyase. This suggests that some residues of the protein play important roles in the photo-repair of CPD. In this paper, we have focused on several res ...[more]