Specificity of DNA recognition in the nucleoprotein complex for site-specific recombination by Tn21 resolvase.

AUTOR(ES)

Hall, S C

RESUMO

Resolvases from Tn3-like transposons catalyse site-specific recombination at res sites. Each res site has 3 binding sites for resolvase, I, II, and III. The res sites in Tn3 and Tn21 have similar structures at I and II but they differ at III. Mutagenesis of the Tn21 res site showed that sub-site III is essential for recombination though the sequences in III that are recognized by Tn21 resolvase are positioned differently from the equivalent sequences in the Tn3 site. The deletion of III caused a 1,000-fold drop in the rate of recombination. But other mutations at III, changing 3 or 4 consecutive base pairs, caused only 1.5- to 4-fold decreases in rate, even when the mutations were in target sequences for this helix-turn-helix protein. The reason why Tn21 resolvase has similar activities at a number of different DNA sequences may be due to the multiplicity of protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions in its recombinogenic complex. This lack of precision may be a general feature of nucleoprotein complexes.

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