Types | DnaRegion
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Roles | Coding
CDS
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Sequences | BBa_K909009_sequence (Version 1)
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Description
UVR8 is responsible for UV-B detection in plants. In dark state UVR8 forms a dimer, which breaks into monomers upon exposure to UV-B light (280-315 nm). Later monomer induces transcriptional changes necessary for UV-B damage repairs and protection.
In addition a BamHI site is inserted after ATG codon for fusions with other proteins (e.g. tetR-DNA binding domain), to use UVR8 as a UV-B sensing domain.
Notes
Contains two illegal PstI sites.
Source
cDNA of UVR8 from Arabidopsis thaliana was provided by Roman Ulm, University of Geneva.