A structural view of Cre-loxP site-specific recombination

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 30, Issue , 2001, Pages 87-104

  Van Duyne, G D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Holliday junction; Integrase; Recombinase; Strand exchange; Synapse

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE; RECOMBINASE;

BACTERIOPHAGE; BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA; INTEGRASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0034991483     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.30.1.87     Document Type: Review

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