The Acinetobacter regulatory UmuDAb protein cleaves in response to DNA damage with chimeric LexA/UmuD characteristics

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 334, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 57-65

  Hare, Janelle M ^a,b   Adhikari, Sabal ^a   Lambert, Kasandra V ^a   Hare, Alexander E ^b   Grice, Alison N ^a  

^a MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA damage; LexA; Serine protease; SOS response; UmuD

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LEXA PROTEIN; MITOMYCIN C; PROTEIN UMUDAB; RECA PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE UMUD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAYLYI; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WILD TYPE;

ACINETOBACTER; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; REC A RECOMBINASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAYLYI; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84864527937     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2012.02618.x     Document Type: Article

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