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JOURNAL OF NUCLEIC ACIDS
Volume 2010, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
HINDAWI LTD
DOI: 10.4061/2010/794782
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30900243, 30870062]
- Bilingual Teaching Project of the Education Ministry of China
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Escherichia coli DNA photolyase is an enzyme that repairs the major kind of UV-induced lesions, cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD) in DNA utilizing 350-450nm light as energy source. The enzyme has very high photo-repair efficiency (the quantum yield of the reaction is similar to 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 residues discussed their roles in catalysis by reviewing the existing literature and some hypotheses.
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