A structural basis for allosteric control of DNA recombination by λ integrase

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7045, 2005, Pages 1059-1066

  Biswas, Tapan ^a   Aihara, Hideki ^a   Radman Livaja, Marta ^b   Filman, David ^a   Landy, Arthur ^b   Ellenberger, Tom ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BINDING ENERGY; CELLS; CHROMOSOMES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEINS; VIRUSES;

CELL PHYSIOLOGY; DNA RECOMBINATION; GENE EXPRESSIONS; GENETIC DIVERSITY;

DNA;

DNA; INTEGRASE; LAMBDA INTEGRASE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DNA;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BINDING KINETICS; CELL FUNCTION; CHROMATID EXCHANGE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA RECOMBINATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; VIRUS DNA CELL DNA INTERACTION;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA, CRUCIFORM; INTEGRASES; ISOMERISM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLIABILITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA;

EID: 21344466779     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03657     Document Type: Article

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