RecA-promoted sliding of base pairs within DNA repeats: Quantitative analysis by a slippage assay

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 296, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 983-987

  Navadgi, Vasundhara M ^a   Sen, Subhojit ^a   Rao, Basuthkar J ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Homology search; RecA; Repeat DNA; Slippage; Targeted ligation assay

Indexed keywords

RECA PROTEIN; REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; BASE PAIRING; GENE CASSETTE; HYDROLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROLYSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; REC A RECOMBINASES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036384165     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(02)02027-2     Document Type: Article

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