Integrating prokaryotes and eukaryotes: DNA transposases in light of structure

Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 50-69

  Hickman, Alison Burgess ^a   Chandler, Michael ^b   Dyda, Fred ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Genome instability; Insertion sequence; Integrase; Transposition; V(D)J recombination

Indexed keywords

DNA; INTEGRASE;

DNA REPAIR; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; EUKARYOTE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DNA; EUKARYOTA; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSPOSASES;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 77249135986     PISSN: 10409238     EISSN: 15497798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10409230903505596     Document Type: Review

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