Challenging a paradigm: The role of DNA homology in tyrosine recombinase reactions

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 300-309

  Rajeev, Lara ^a   Malanowska, Karolina ^b   Gardner, Jeffrey F ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; DNA; INTERLEUKIN 29; RECOMBINASE; TYROSINE RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XER RECOMBINASE;

ATTB GENE; ATTP GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BINDING SITE; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSPOSASES; TYROSINE;

EID: 66749140560     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.00038-08     Document Type: Review

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