title: Sliding to the rescue of damaged DNA.
abstract: Single-molecule imaging experiments have shed new light on the methods used by the enzyme RecA to align single- and double-stranded DNA so that double-strand breaks can be repaired.
authors.affiliation: is at the  Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute ,  Columbia University ,  New York ,  United States bg2390@columbia.edu.
authors.forename: Bryan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gibb
authors.forename: Eric C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Greene
mesh_terms: D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded / Q000737:chemistry*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics*; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D059765:Homologous Recombination; D011938:Rec A Recombinases / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D011938:Rec A Recombinases