Requirements for catalysis in the Cre recombinase active site

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 5817-5832

  Gibb, Bryan ^a   Gupta, Kushol ^a   Ghosh, Kaushik ^a,b   Sharp, Robert ^a   Chen, James ^a   van Duyne, Gregory D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b SYNGENE INTERNATIONAL LTD   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; CRE RECOMBINASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYDROXYL GROUP; LYSINE; NUCLEOPHILE; RECOMBINASE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; TYROSINE RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HISTIDINE; INTEGRASE; VANADIC ACID;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LOXP SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOCATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARGININE; BIOCATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; HISTIDINE; INTEGRASES; LYSINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; VANADATES;

EID: 77957230109     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq384     Document Type: Article

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