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Fis targets assembly of the Xis nucleoprotein filament to promote excisive recombination by phage lambda.
Journal of molecular biology - 23 Mar 2007
Papagiannis Christie V, Sam My D, Abbani Mohamad A, Yoo Daniel, Cascio Duilio, Clubb Robert T, Johnson Reid C
Abstract excerpt
The phage-encoded Xis protein is the major determinant controlling the direction of recombination in phage lambda. Xis is a winged-helix DNA binding protein that cooperatively binds to the attR recombination site to generate a curved microfilament, which promotes assembly of the excisive intasome but inhibits formation of an integrative intasome. We find that lambda synthesizes surprisingly high levels of Xis...
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