Preferential Synapsis of Loxp Sites Drives Ordered Strand Exchange in Cre-Loxp Site-Specific Recombination

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 275-282

  Ghosh, Kaushik ^a   Lau, Chi Kong ^a   Gupta, Kushol ^a   Van Duyne, Gregory D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; DNA POLYMERASE; INTEGRASE; SITE SPECIFIC RECOMBINASE; SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINASE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; INTEGRASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 33644826972     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio733     Document Type: Article

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