Mechanism of active site exclusion in a site-specific recombinase: Role of the DNA substrate in conferring half-of-the-sites activity

Genes and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 3061-3071

  Lee, Jehee ^a   Tonozuka, Takashi ^a,b   Jayaram, Makkuni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active site assembly; Catalytic complementation; DNA conformation; DNA recombination; Nucleotide bulges

Indexed keywords

DNA; RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030661988     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.22.3061     Document Type: Article

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