Mechanistic and structural complexity in the site-specific recombination pathways of Int and FLP

A Landy - Current opinion in genetics & development, 1993 - Elsevier
This review focuses on two of the approximately 30 members of the diverse Int family of site-
specific recombinases. The λ recombination system represents those reactions involving …

Active site of the replication protein of the rolling circle plasmid pC194.

MF Noirot‐Gros, V Bidnenko, SD Ehrlich - The EMBO Journal, 1994 - embopress.org
Mutation analysis of the rolling circle (RC) replication initiator protein RepA of plasmid
pC194 was targeted to tyrosine and acidic amino acids (glutamate and aspartate) which are …

Phosphoryl transfer in Flp recombination: a template for strand transfer mechanisms

M Jayaram - Trends in biochemical sciences, 1994 - cell.com
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 …

Lambda integrase cleaves DNA in cis.

SE Nunes‐Düby, RS Tirumalai, L Dorgai, E Yagil… - The EMBO …, 1994 - embopress.org
In the Int family of site‐specific recombinases, DNA cleavage is accomplished by
nucleophilic attack on the activated scissile phosphodiester bond by a specific tyrosine …

Use of site-specific recombination systems in plants

JT Odell, SH Russell - Homologous recombination and gene silencing in …, 1994 - Springer
11. Use of Site-Specific Recombination Systems in Plants Page 1 11. Use of Site-Specific
Recombination Systems in Plants JOAN T. ODELL and SANDRA H. RUSSELL Contents …

Site‐Specific Recombination by the Flp Protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

M Jayaram, I Grainge, G Tribble - Mobile DNA II, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter reviews the biochemical, mechanistic, and topological aspects of the Flp
system with special emphasis on the contributions made by the Flp protein subunits and the …

Analyses of the first chemical step in Flp site-specific recombination: synapsis may not be a pre-requisite for strand cleavage

Y Voziyanov, J Lee, I Whang, J Lee… - Journal of molecular …, 1996 - Elsevier
The site-specific recombination reaction mediated by the Flp recombinase occurs within a
protein-DNA complex containing four monomers of Flp and two DNA substrates. The …

Reaction mechanism of T4 endonuclease V determined by analysis using modified oligonucleotide duplexes

S Iwai, M Maeda, M Shirai, Y Shimada, T Osafune… - Biochemistry, 1995 - ACS Publications
Revised Manuscript Received January 24, 7995® abstract: The reaction mechanism of
bacteriophage T4 endonuclease V was investigated using modified …

The yeast site-specific recombinase Flp mediates alcoholysis and hydrolysis of the strand cleavage product: mimicking the strand-joining reaction with non-DNA …

BR Knudsen, K Dahlstrøm, O Westergaard… - Journal of molecular …, 1997 - Elsevier
The yeast site-specific recombinase Flp is covalently linked to DNA via a 3′-phosphotyrosyl
bond during the strand-breakage step of recombination. We show that this phosphotyrosyl …

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

PA Rowley, AH Kachroo, CH Ma, AD Maciaszek… - Journal of Biological …, 2010 - ASBMB
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 …