Predicting Knot or Catenane Type of Site-Specific Recombination Products

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 374, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1186-1199

  Buck, Dorothy ^a   Flapan, Erica ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA knots; DNA topology; serine recombinases; site specific recombination; tyrosine recombinases

Indexed keywords

CATENANE; CIRCULAR DNA; RECOMBINASE; SERINE RECOMBINASE; TYROSINE RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME MECHANISM; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY;

EID: 36248968186     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.10.016     Document Type: Article

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