The Mu transpososome structure sheds light on DDE recombinase evolution

Nature

Volumn 491, Issue 7424, 2012, Pages 413-417

  Montaño, Sherwin P ^a   Pigli, Ying Z ^a   Rice, Phoebe A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; CURVED DNA; DNA; MU TRANSPOSOSOME; RECOMBINASE; TRANSPOSASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIOPHAGE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DDE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RECOMBINATION;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIOPHAGE MU; DNA, VIRAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINASES; TRANSPOSASES;

ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE MU;

EID: 84869090034     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11602     Document Type: Article

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