Action of site-specific recombinases XerC and XerD on tethered Holliday junctions

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 3731-3743

  Arciszewska, Lidia K ^a   Grainge, Ian ^a   Sherratt, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Holliday junctions; Xer site specific recombination; XerC; XerD

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINASE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; THYMINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA STRAND; ENZYME BINDING; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CATALYSIS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE BAMHI; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; EDETIC ACID; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; HYDROXYL RADICAL; INTEGRASES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OSMIUM TETROXIDE; OXIDANTS; POTASSIUM PERMANGANATE; PROTEINS; RECOMBINASES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THYMINE;

EID: 0030927777     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.12.3731     Document Type: Article

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