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A time for promiscuity in a eukaryotic recombinase
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A time for promiscuity in a eukaryotic recombinase

Maria Spies
The Journal of biological chemistry, Vol.292(26), pp.11136-11137
06/30/2017
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.H117.787614
PMCID: PMC5491794
PMID: 28667173
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https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.H117.787614View
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Abstract

The exchange of DNA strands between broken and intact molecules lies at the heart of fundamental cellular processes ranging from repairing DNA damage by homologous recombination to generation of genetic diversity during sexual reproduction. New work by Lee and colleagues utilizes the DNA curtain method, an elegant single-molecule technique, to demonstrate common and idiosyncratic features in the DNA strand exchange mechanisms of three RecA-family recombinases, bacterial RecA, and eukaryotic Rad51 and Dmc1 proteins.
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Science & Technology

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