In vivo analysis of the plasmid pAM beta 1 resolution system.

doi:10.1093/nar/24.17.3431

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In vivo analysis of the plasmid pAM beta 1 resolution system.

Nucleic acids research - 1 Sept 1996

Jannière L, McGovern S, Pujol C, Petit M A, Ehrlich S D

Abstract excerpt

The promiscuous plasmid pAM beta 1 from Gram-positive bacteria encodes a resolution system which differs from that of Tn3 in that (i) it requires a histone-like protein and an unusual resolvase-DNA interaction to promote recombination and (ii) it mediates in vivo DNA inversion in plasmid substrat...

Topics

Bacillus subtilis
Base Sequence
Chromosome Inversion
Chromosomes, Bacterial
DNA Nucleotidyltransferases
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Plasmids
Protein Binding
Recombination, Genetic
Transposases

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