True reversal of Mu integration

EMBO Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 3408-3420

  Au, T K ^a   Pathania, Shailja ^a,b   Harshey, Rasika M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Directionality of transposition; Disintegration; Hairpin formation; Target conformation; Transposase

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE; METAL ION; MU TRANSPOSASE; TRANSPOSASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE MU; DDE MOTIF; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROLYSIS; MU GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DISASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIOPHAGE MU; BASE SEQUENCE; CATIONS, DIVALENT; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, VIRAL; METALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE MU; TRANSPOSONS; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 4444363151     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600344     Document Type: Article

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