Single strands induce recA protein to unwind duplex DNA for homologous pairing
- 1 September 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 281 (5728) , 191-195
- https://doi.org/10.1038/281191a0
Abstract
Single-stranded DNA, whether homologous or not, stimulates purified Escherichia coli recA protein to unwind duplex DNA. This helps to explain how recA promotes a search for homology in genetic recombination. As oligodeoxynucleotides also stimulate unwinding, a common mechanism may relate the function of recA protein in recombination to other functions (SOS) induced by oligonucleotides.This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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