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SUBMITTER: Biswas T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1809751 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature 20050601 7045
Site-specific DNA recombination is important for basic cellular functions including viral integration, control of gene expression, production of genetic diversity and segregation of newly replicated chromosomes, and is used by bacteriophage lambda to integrate or excise its genome into and out of the host chromosome. lambda recombination is carried out by the bacteriophage-encoded integrase protein (lambda-int) together with accessory DNA sites and associated bending proteins that allow regulati ...[more]