An overview of tyrosine site-specific recombination: From an flp perspective

Mobile DNA III

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 43-71

  Jayaram, Makkuni ^a   Ma, Chien Hui ^a   Kachroo, Aashiq H ^a   Rowley, Paul A ^a   Guga, Piotr ^b   Fan, Hsui Fang ^c   Voziyanov, Yuri ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b CENTRE OF MOLECULAR AND MACROMOLECULAR STUDIES   (Poland)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalytic residues; DNA partners; Flp binding element; Holliday junctions; Nonhomology induced knotting; Recombination synapse; Strand exchange mechanism; Synaptic organization; Tyrosine site specific recombination; YR active site

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942082404     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1128/9781555819217.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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