Synapsis and strand exchange in the resolution and DNA inversion reactions catalysed by the β recombinase

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1038-1044

  Canosa, Inés ^a,c   López, Gema ^a   Rojo, Fernando ^a   Boocock, Martin R ^b   Alonso, Juan C ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA RECOMBINASE; DNA; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN HBSU; RECOMBINASE; RESOLVASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CATALYSIS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA STRAND; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SUPERCOILING; ENZYME BINDING; INVERTED REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATALYSIS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DNA; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EID: 0037324355     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg166     Document Type: Review

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