Site-specific recombination in gram-positive theta-replicating plasmids.
This review summarises current information on the site-specific recombinases encoded by the plasmids of the Gram-positive bacteria that have low guanine and cytosine content in their DNA. It focuses on the peculiar biological features of the recombination systems encoded by the theta-replicating plasmids and compares them with the site-specific recombinases encoded by transposons or plasmids originally isolated from Gram-negative bacteria.
Alonso
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Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, C.S.I.C., Campus Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, Spain. jcalonso@samba.cnb.uam.es
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D001665:Binding Sites / Q000235:genetics; D004254:DNA Nucleotidyltransferases / Q000235:genetics; D004261:DNA Replication; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; D006094:Gram-Positive Bacteria / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010957:Plasmids / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics*; D011485:Protein Binding / Q000235:genetics; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D019895:Transposases
D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D004254:DNA Nucleotidyltransferases; D019895:Transposases