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Isabel K Darcy Jeff Chang Nathan Druivenga Colin McKinney Ram K Medikonduri Stacy Mills Junalyn Navarra-Madsen Arun Ponnusamy Jesse Sweet Travis Thompson 《BMC bioinformatics》2006,7(1):435
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Tangle analysis has been applied successfully to study proteins which bind two segments of DNA and can knot and link circular DNA. We show how tangle analysis can be extended to model any stable protein-DNA complex. 相似文献2.
Vetcher AA Lushnikov AY Navarra-Madsen J Scharein RG Lyubchenko YL Darcy IK Levene SD 《Journal of molecular biology》2006,357(4):1089-1104
The Flp recombinase of yeast and the Cre recombinase of bacteriophage P1 both belong to the lambda-integrase (Int) family of site-specific recombinases. These recombination systems recognize recombination-target sequences that consist of two 13bp inverted repeats flanking a 6 or 8bp spacer sequence. Recombination reactions involve particular geometric and topological relationships between DNA target sites at synapsis, which we investigate using nicked-circular DNA molecules. Examination of the tertiary structure of synaptic complexes formed on nicked plasmid DNAs by atomic-force microscopy, in conjunction with detailed topological analysis using the mathematics of tangles, shows that only a limited number of recombination-site topologies are consistent with the global structures of plasmids bearing directly and inversely repeated sites. The tangle solutions imply that there is significant distortion of the Holliday-junction intermediate relative to the planar structure of the four-way DNA junction present in the Flp and Cre co-crystal structures. Based on simulations of nucleoprotein structures that connect the two-dimensional tangle solutions with three-dimensional models of the complexes, we propose a recombination mechanism in which the synaptic intermediate is characterized by a non-planar, possibly near-tetrahedral, Holliday-junction intermediate. Only modest conformational changes within this structure are needed to form the symmetric, planar DNA junction, which may be characteristic of shorter-lived intermediates along the recombination pathway. 相似文献
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