Strand Selection by the Tyrosine Recombinases

Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology

Volumn 80, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-42

  Lee, Linda ^a   Sadowski, Paul D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; CRUCIFORM DNA; DNA; DNA POLYMERASE; INTEGRASE; RECOMBINASE; TYROSINE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVIEW;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA, CRUCIFORM; INTEGRASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINASES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TYROSINE; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 27644492112     PISSN: 00796603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6603(05)80001-7     Document Type: Review

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