Electrostatic suppression allows tyrosine site-specific recombination in the absence of a conserved catalytic arginine.

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The active site of the tyrosine family site-specific recombinase Flp contains a conserved catalytic pentad that includes two arginine residues, Arg-191 and Arg-308. Both arginines are essential for the transesterification steps of strand cleavage and strand joining in DNA substrates containing a phosphate group at the scissile position. During strand cleavage, the active site tyrosine supplies the nucleophile to...

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