title: Yeast plasmid 2-micron circle promotes recombination within bacterial transposon Tn5.
abstract: The site-specific recombination system (FLP) encoded by the yeast plasmid 2-micron circle can also act in yeast on the inverted repeats of the bacterial transposon Tn5. The efficiency of this recombination is dependent on the location of Tn5 within the 2-micron circle genome but can be as high as that observed for 2-micron circle itself. Comparison of the DNA sequences between the Tn5 repeat and the 2-micron circle recombination region reveals certain strikingly similar structural features that might be important in the recombination reaction.
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D004262:DNA Restriction Enzymes; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D004274:DNA, Recombinant / Q000378:metabolism*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D010957:Plasmids
chemical_list: D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D004274:DNA, Recombinant; D004262:DNA Restriction Enzymes