Article
Diversity in the serine recombinases.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Apr 2002
Smith Margaret C M, Thorpe Helena M
Abstract excerpt
Most site-specific recombinases fall into one of two families, based on evolutionary and mechanistic relatedness. These are the tyrosine recombinases or lambda integrase family and the serine recombinases or resolvase/invertase family. The tyrosine recombinases are structurally diverse and functionally versatile and include integrases, resolvases, invertases and transposases. Recent studies have revealed that the...
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