C-terminal interactions between the XerC and XerD site-specific recombinases

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1031-1042

  Splerst, Andrew J ^a,b   Sherratt, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOMER; MUTANT PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA SUPERCOILING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; INTEGRASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032984988     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01418.x     Document Type: Article

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