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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 278, Issue 25, Pages 23118-23129Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M302272200
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Cre initiates recombination by preferentially exchanging the bottom strands of the loxP site to form a Holliday intermediate, which is then resolved on the top strands. We previously found that the scissile AT and GC base pairs immediately 5' to the scissile phosphodiester bonds are critical in determining this order of strand exchange. We report here that the scissile base pairs also influence the Cre-induced DNA bends, the position of which correlates with the initial site of strand exchange. The binding of one Cre molecule to a loxP site induces a similar to35degrees asymmetric bend adjacent to the scissile GC base pair. The binding of two Cre molecules to a loxP site induces a similar to55degrees asymmetric bend near the center of the spacer region with a slight bias toward the scissile A. Lys-86, which contacts the scissile nucleotides, is important for establishing the bend near the scissile GC base pair when one Cre molecule is bound but has little role in positioning the bend when two Cre molecules are bound to a loxP site. We present a model relating the position of the Cre-induced bends to the order of strand exchange in the Cre-catalyzed recombination reaction.
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