A novel pairing process promoted by Escherichia coli RecA protein: Inverse DNA and RNA strand exchange

Genes and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 740-749

  Zaitsev, Eugene N ^a   Kowalczykowski, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA pairing; DNA strand exchange; R loop; RecA protein; Recombination

Indexed keywords

DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; RECA PROTEIN; RNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REC A RECOMBINASES; RNA, BACTERIAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034654617     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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