A tetramer of the Flp recombinase silences the trimers within it during resolution of a Holliday junction substrate

Genes and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 2438-2447

  Lee, Jehee ^a   Jayaram, Makkuni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Active site silencing; Shared active site; Site specific recombination

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; RECOMBINASE; TETRAMER;

ARTICLE; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

EID: 0030886990     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.18.2438     Document Type: Article

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