High fidelity of RecA-catalyzed recombination: A watchdog of genetic diversity

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 5021-5031

  Sagi, Dror ^a   Tlusty, Tsvi ^a   Stavans, Joel ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGOMER; RECA PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MISMATCH REPAIR; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNAPSE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; CATALYSIS; DNA; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; MODELS, GENETIC; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33751018876     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl586     Document Type: Article

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