Structure of the Holliday junction intermediate in Cre-loxP site-specific recombination

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 4175-4187

  Gopaul, Deshmukh N ^a   Guo, Feng ^a   Van Duyne, Gregory D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cre recombinase; Holliday junction; Recombination

Indexed keywords

DNA; RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; ISOMERISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032528271     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.14.4175     Document Type: Article

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