encodes an amino acid sequence with significant homology to the recently characterized type II photolyases. The uvr2-1 mutant is unable to remove CPDs in vivo, and plant extracts lack detectable photolyase activity , is sensitive to UV-B and is an allele
Computational Description
photolyase 1 (PHR1); CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Rossmann-like alpha/beta/alpha sandwich fold (InterPro:IPR014729), DNA photolyase, N-terminal (InterPro:IPR006050), DNA photolyase, FAD-binding/Cryptochrome, C-terminal (InterPro:IPR005101), DNA photolyase, class 2 (InterPro:IPR008148); Has 1792 Blast hits to 1788 proteins in 474 species: Archae - 23; Bacteria - 644; Metazoa - 122; Fungi - 53; Plants - 107; Viruses - 39; Other Eukaryotes - 804 (source: NCBI BLink).