New insight into site-specific recombination from Flp recombinase-DNA structures

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 32, Issue , 2003, Pages 135-159

  Chen, Yu ^a   Rice, Phoebe A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain swapping; Half of the sites activity; Holliday junction; Integrase; Strand exchange

Indexed keywords

DNA; GAMMA INTEGRASE; INTEGRASE; RECOMBINASE; SITE SPECIFIC RECOMBINASE; TYROSINE; TYROSINE RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTE; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SITE SPECIFIC RECOMBINATION;

BINDING SITES; CATALYSIS; DNA; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TYROSINE;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0041375463     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.32.110601.141732     Document Type: Review

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