Holliday junctions in FLP recombination: resolution by step-arrest mutants of FLP protein.
- 1 November 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 85 (21) , 7902-7906
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.85.21.7902
Abstract
The FLP "recombinase" of the 2-.mu.m circle yeast plasmid can resolve synthetic FLP site-Holliday junctions. Mutants of the FLP protein that are blocked in recombination but are normal in substrate cleavage can also mediate resolution. The products of resolution by these mutants are almost exclusively nicked molecules with a protein-bound 3'' end. There is not significant asymmetry in strand cleavage (top versus bottom) by the mutants in linear or in circular FLP substrates; nor is there a bias in resolution (toward parental or toward recombinants) of Holliday junctions(corresponding to top- or to bottom-strand exchange) by wild-type FLP. During normal FLP recombination, a small amount of the expected Holliday intermediate can be detected.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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