The efficiency of mispaired ligations by λ integrase is extremely sensitive to context

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 342, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1647-1658

  Lee, Sang Yeol ^a   Landy, Arthur ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

E. coli bacteriophage; multimeric complexes; protein DNA interactions; protein protein interactions; site specific recombination

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; DIMER; DNA; INTEGRASE; POLYMER; TETRAMER;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; BASE MISPAIRING; BASE PAIRING; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA STRAND; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; MUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA;

EID: 4444370889     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.08.008     Document Type: Article

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