PHOSPHORYL TRANSFER IN FLP RECOMBINATION - A TEMPLATE FOR STRAND TRANSFER MECHANISMS

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作者
JAYARAM, M
机构
[1] M. Jayaram is at the Department of Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin
基金
美国国家卫生研究院;
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10.1016/0968-0004(94)90039-6
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The basic chemistry involved in DNA recombination, RNA splicing and DNA transposition is a phosphoryl transfer reaction. This review is an attempt to provoke a unified thinking on the reaction mechanisms in these nucleic acid transactions. Some of the recent results with the Flp site-specific recombinase that reveal how the chemical reactivity for recombination is derived from cooperative protein-subunit interactions on the DNA substrate are discussed. At least some of the features of Flp reaction are likely to have global implications in other DNA and RNA strand-transfer systems.
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