The Carboxy-Terminal αN Helix of the Archaeal XerA Tyrosine Recombinase Is a Molecular Switch to Control Site-Specific Recombination

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Serre, Marie Claude ^a,c   El Arnaout, Toufic ^b,e   Brooks, Mark A ^b,f   Durand, Dominique ^b,c   Lisboa, Johnny ^b   Lazar, Noureddine ^b   Raynal, Bertrand ^d   van Tilbeurgh, Herman ^b   Quevillon Cheruel, Sophie ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY OF THE CELL I2BC   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^e TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^f EVOTEC UK LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XERA PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; MOLECULAR DOCKING; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

APOENZYMES; BASE SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA, ARCHAEAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PYROCOCCUS ABYSSI; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TYROSINE;

EID: 84877110407     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063010     Document Type: Article

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