Sensing homology at the strand-swapping step in λ excisive recombination

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 272, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 493-508

  Nunes Düby, Simone E ^a   Yu, Dan ^a   Landy, Arthur ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Att sites; Integrase; Ligation; Site specific recombination; Y junctions

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA STRUCTURE; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS RECOMBINATION;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA;

EID: 0031551575     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1260     Document Type: Article

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