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Near-simultaneous DNA cleavage by the subunits of the junction-resolving enzyme T4 endonuclease VII.
The EMBO journal - 1 May 1997
Giraud-Panis M J, Lilley D M
Abstract excerpt
In common with a number of other DNA junction-resolving enzymes, endonuclease VII of bacteriophage T4 binds to a four-way DNA junction as a dimer, and cleaves two strands of the junction. We have used a supercoil-stabilized cruciform substrate to probe the simultaneity of cleavage at the two sites. Active endonuclease VII converts the supercoiled circular DNA directly into linear product, indicating that the two...
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