RecA mediated initial alignment of homologous DNA molecules displays apparent first order kinetics with little effect of heterology

DNA Repair

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 61-65

  Patel, Shwetal ^a,b   Edwards, Jeremy S ^a  

^a University of Delaware   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bond fluctuation Monte Carlo; Homology search; Nucleoprotein dynamics; Recombination; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ANTIPORTER; RECA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DISPLAY SYSTEM; DNA STRAND; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; KINETICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 0346249700     PISSN: 15687864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2003.09.009     Document Type: Article

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