Two-step site selection for serine-integrase-mediated excision: DNA-directed integrase conformation and central dinucleotide proofreading

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3238-3243

  Ghosh, Pallavi ^a   Bibb, Lori A ^a,b   Hatfull, Graham F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b Laboratory of Respiratory and Special Pathogens   (United States)

Author keywords

Mycobacteriophage; Phage integration

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; INTEGRASE; SERINE; BACTERIOPHAGE RECEPTOR; DNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE BXB1; CATALYSIS; ENZYME CONFORMATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; DNA; INTEGRASES; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGES; NUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 42149195988     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0711649105     Document Type: Article

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