The poor homology stringency in the heteroduplex allows strand exchange to incorporate desirable mismatches without sacrificing recognition in vivo

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 6473-6485

  Danilowicz, Claudia ^a   Yang, Darren ^a   Kelley, Craig ^a   Prévost, Chantal ^b   Prentiss, Mara ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b France   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HETERODUPLEX; RECA PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; DNA B; PROTEIN BINDING;

ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; CHEMICAL BINDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA BINDING; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HETERODUPLEX STRAND EXCHANGE; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; METABOLISM;

BASE PAIR MISMATCH; DNA, B-FORM; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; PROTEIN BINDING; REC A RECOMBINASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84939630096     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv610     Document Type: Article

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