Structural features of single-stranded integron cassette attC sites and their role in strand selection.

We recently showed that cassette integration and deletion in integron platforms were occurring through unconventional site-specific recombination reactions involving only the bottom strand of attC sites. The lack of sequence conservation among attC sites led us to hypothesize that sequence-independe...

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Main Authors: Marie Bouvier, Magaly Ducos-Galand, Céline Loot, David Bikard, Didier Mazel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-09-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2727003?pdf=render