Intermediates in serine recombinase-mediated site-specific recombination

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 617-622

  Stark, W Marshall ^a   Boocock, Martin R ^a   Olorunniji, Femi J ^a   Rowland, Sally J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DNA cleavage; Serine recombinase; Sin; Site specific recombination; Strand exchange; Tn3 resolvase

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; RECOMBINASE; SIN RESOLVASE; TN3 RESOLVASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; ENZYME REGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LARVA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SERINE;

SYNAPSIS;

EID: 79953230548     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST0390617     Document Type: Review

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