The same two monomers within a MuA tetramer provide the DDE domains for the strand cleavage and strand transfer steps of transposition

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 3775-3785

  Namgoong, Soon Young ^a   Harshey, Rasika M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Active site assembly; Altered DNA binding specificity; DDE motif; DNA transposition; Mu transposase

Indexed keywords

MONOMER; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; TETRAMER; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DNA SUPERCOILING; DNA TRANSPOSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

BACTERIOPHAGE MU; BINDING SITES; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; DNA, VIRAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 0032125708     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.13.3775     Document Type: Article

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