A five‐nucleotide sequence protects DNA from exonucleolytic degradation by AddAB, the RecBCD analogue of Bacillus subtilis
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- 1 September 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Molecular Microbiology
- Vol. 29 (6) , 1369-1377
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01018.x
Abstract
Homologous recombination in Bacillus subtilis requires the product of the addA and addB genes, the AddAB enzyme. This enzyme, which is both a helicase and a powerful nuclease, is thought to be the co...This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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