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Synapsis and DNA cleavage in phiC31 integrase-mediated site-specific recombination.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Jan 2004
Smith Matthew C A, Till Rob, Brady Kevin, Soultanas Panos, Thorpe Helena, Smith Margaret C M
Abstract excerpt
The Streptomyces phage phiC31 encodes an integrase belonging to the serine recombinase family of site-specific recombinases. The well studied serine recombinases, the resolvase/invertases, bring two recombination sites together in a synapse, and then catalyse a concerted four-strand staggered break in the DNA substrates whilst forming transient covalent attachments with the recessed 5' ends. Rotation of one pair...
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