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Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a single celled alga, which undergoes apoptosis in response to UV-irradiation.UVI31+ in C.reinhardtii exhibits DNA and RNA endonuclease activity, induced upon UV-stress.UVI31+ that normally localizes to cell-wall and pyrenoid regions gets redistributed into punctate foci within the whole chloroplast, away from the pyrenoid, upon UV-stress.The structure, dynamics and the putative function of UVI31+ has been studied.The calculated 3D structure of UVI31+ has α1β1α2α2α3β3 fold very similar to BolA family of proteins, which in turn is similar to the well-described K-Homology Class-Ⅱ (KH) domain that contains RNA and DNA binding motif.