Structure of Cre recombinase complexed with DNA in a site-specific recombination synapse

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6646, 1997, Pages 40-46

  Guo, Feng ^a   Gopaul, Deshmukh N ^a   Van Duyne, Gregory D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA RECOMBINATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTEGRASES; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHOSPHOTYROSINE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030886293     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/37925     Document Type: Article

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