title: Half-site strand transfer by step-arrest mutants of yeast site-specific recombinase Flp.
abstract: The Flp recombinase of Saccharomyces cerevisae can mediate strand transfer within a half-site, between two half-sites and between a half-site and a full-site. The ability of "step-arrest" mutants of Flp to partake in half-site reactions has been examined. Arg308 variants of Flp, which show little or no strand cleavage in reactions with normal full-sites, execute significant levels of strand transfer in half-site reactions. On the other hand, His305 variants of Flp, which normally accumulate the strand cleavage product from full-sites but do not complete strand transfer, yield only minute amounts of strand transfer products from half-sites. As would be predicted, the step-arrest mutants are unable to produce "normal" or "reverse" recombinants between a half-site and a full-site. The Flp protein is able to form higher-order complexes in association with a half-site. The step-arrest mutants of Flp show specific defects in forming these complexes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, University of Texas, Austin 78712.
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Serre
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jayaram
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D004254:DNA Nucleotidyltransferases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000201:enzymology; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D004254:DNA Nucleotidyltransferases; C045119:FLP recombinase