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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY
卷 2, 期 5, 页码 264-275出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jmcb/mjq025
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site-specific recombination; serine recombinase; phage integrase
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- National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) [2007AA021206]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30600009, 30830002]
Bacteriophage-encoded serine recombinases have great potential in genetic engineering but their catalytic mechanisms have not been adequately studied. Integration of phi BT1 and phi C31 via their attachment (att) sites is catalyzed by integrases of the large serine recombinase subtype. Both phi BT1 and phi C31 integrases were found to cleave single-substrate att sites without synaptic complex formation, and phi BT1 integrase relaxed supercoiled DNA containing a single integration site. Systematic mutation of the central att site dinucleotide revealed that cleavage was independent of nucleotide sequence, but rejoining was crucially dependent upon complementarity of the cleavage products. Recombination between att sites containing dinucleotides with antiparallel complementarity led to antiparallel recombination. Integrase-substrate pre-incubation experiments revealed that the enzyme can form an attP-integrase tetramer complex that then captures naked attB DNA, and suggested that two alternative assembly pathways can lead to synaptic complex formation.
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