Multiple interfaces between a serine Recombinase and an enhancer control sitespecific DNA inversion

eLife

Volumn 2013, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  McLean, Meghan M ^a   Chang, Yong ^a   Dhar, Gautam ^a   Heiss, John K ^a   Johnson, Reid C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION; HIN RECOMBINASE; LEUCINE; RECOMBINASE; SERINE RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA POLYMERASE; DNA SUPERCOILING; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING DOMAIN; DNA CROSS LINKING; DNA INVERSION; DNA RECOMBINATION; GENE MUTATION; HIN HELIX B; HIN INVERTASOME; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE, METABOLISM AND FUNCTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SUPERCOILING; ENHANCER REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION PROTEIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 84886288219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.01211     Document Type: Article

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