Structural basis for broad DNA-specificity in integron recombination

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7088, 2006, Pages 1157-1162

  MacDonald, Douglas ^a   Demarre, Gaëlle ^a   Bouvier, Marie ^a   Mazel, Didier ^a   Gopaul, Deshmukh N ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PROTEINS;

DNA TRANSFER; GENETIC INFORMATION; INTEGRON; STRUCTURAL RECOGNITION;

DNA;

DNA; DNA BASE; INTEGRASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIUM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA; GENE TRANSFER; GENOMICS; RECOMBINATION;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSDUCTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TRANSFER; GENE CASSETTE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRAIT; HORIZONTAL DNA TRANSFER; INTEGRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33646337441     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04643     Document Type: Article

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