Binding and cleavage of nicked substrates by site-specific recombinases XerC and XerD

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 265, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 30-39

  Blakely, Garry W ^a   Davidson, Anne O ^a   Sherratt, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dif; Recombinase; Selectivity; Site specific recombination; Xer

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031561801     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0709     Document Type: Article

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