Structural alterations and conformational dynamics in Holliday junctions induced by binding of a site-specific recombinase

Molecular Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 483-493

  Lee, Jehee ^a,b   Voziyanov, Yuri ^a   Pathania, Shailja ^a   Jayaram, Makkuni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Jeju National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSOVER JUNCTION ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA; DNA POLYMERASE; INTEGRASE; INTEGRON INTEGRASE INTI1; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; DNA; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION RESOLVASES; INTEGRASES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0032012077     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80049-0     Document Type: Article

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