Photolyase
| Cryptochrome/photolyase, C-terminal, FAD binding | |||||||||||
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A deazaflavin photolyase from Anacystis nidulans, illustrating the two light-harvesting cofactors: FADH− (yellow) and 8-HDF (cyan). | |||||||||||
| Identifiers | |||||||||||
| Symbol | FAD_binding_7 | ||||||||||
| Pfam | PF03441 | ||||||||||
| InterPro | IPR005101 | ||||||||||
| PROSITE | PDOC00331 | ||||||||||
| SCOP2 | 1qnf / SCOPe / SUPFAM | ||||||||||
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| deoxyribodipyrimidine photo-lyase (CPD) | |||||||||
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A UV radiation induced thymine-thymine cyclobutane dimer (right) is the type of DNA damage which is repaired by DNA photolyase. Note: The above diagram is incorrectly labelled as thymine as the structures lack 5-methyl groups. | |||||||||
| Identifiers | |||||||||
| EC no. | 4.1.99.3 | ||||||||
| CAS no. | 37290-70-3 | ||||||||
| Databases | |||||||||
| IntEnz | IntEnz view | ||||||||
| BRENDA | BRENDA entry | ||||||||
| ExPASy | NiceZyme view | ||||||||
| KEGG | KEGG entry | ||||||||
| MetaCyc | metabolic pathway | ||||||||
| PRIAM | profile | ||||||||
| PDB structures | RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum | ||||||||
| Gene Ontology | AmiGO / QuickGO | ||||||||
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Photolyases (EC 4.1.99.3) are DNA repair enzymes that repair damage caused by exposure to ultraviolet light. These enzymes require visible light (from the violet/blue end of the spectrum) both for their own activation and for the actual DNA repair. The DNA repair mechanism involving photolyases is called photoreactivation. They mainly convert pyrimidine dimers into a normal pair of pyrimidine bases. Photo reactivation, the first DNA repair mechanism to be discovered, was described initially by Albert Kelner in 1949 and independently by Renato Dulbecco also in 1949.