A newly identified, essential catalytic residue in a critical secondary structure element in the integrase family of site-specific recombinases is conserved in a similar element in eucaryotic type IB topoisomerases

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 289, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 517-527

  Yunhong, Cao ^a   Hayes, Finbarr ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Integrase; Site specific recombination; Topoisomerase; XerD

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE; INTEGRASE; LYSINE; PHOSPHOTYROSINE; RECOMBINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0033546116     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2793     Document Type: Article

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