Temperate Phages Acquire DNA from Defective Prophages by Relaxed Homologous Recombination: The Role of Rad52-Like Recombinases [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2014 Bacteriophages (or phages) dominate the biosphere both numerically and in terms of genetic diversity. In particular, genomic comparisons suggest a remarkable level of horizontal gene transfer among temperate phages, favoring a high evolution rate ...
Marianne De Paëpe +2 more
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Single-cell characterization of bacterial optogenetic Cre recombinases [PDF]
iScienceSummary: Microbial optogenetic tools can regulate gene expression with spatial and temporal precision, offering excellent potential for single-cell resolution studies.
Hellen Huang +2 more
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From Gene Knockouts to Genome Remodeling: Large DNA Fragment Deletion Technologies in Plants [PDF]
PlantsLarge DNA fragment deletion (LDFD) provides a powerful means to reconfigure plant genomes at the kilobase to megabase scale, enabling the dissection of genome function, elucidation of non-coding regulatory elements, modulation of gene dosage ...
Jiayi Hou +6 more
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Minimal mutational requirements for conversion of a telomere resolvase into a Cre-like site-specific recombinase. [PDF]
PLoS ONEHairpin telomere resolvases comprise a family of enzymes that produce the hairpin (hp) telomeres of bacteria and their phages that possess linear chromosomes and plasmids terminated by covalently closed hp telomeres.
Shu Hui Huang, Kerri Kobryn
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RECC: A Red/ET–CRISPR/Cas9-based system enabling genome mining of marine Pseudoalteromonas for novel natural products [PDF]
Synthetic and Systems BiotechnologyMarine microorganisms possess vast biosynthetic potential, yet most of their biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) remain transcriptionally silent under laboratory conditions.
Zong-jie Wang +5 more
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Zinc Finger Recombinases with Adaptable DNA Sequence Specificity
PLoS ONE, 2011 Site-specific recombinases have become essential tools in genetics and molecular biology for the precise excision or integration of DNA sequences. However, their utility is currently limited to circumstances where the sites recognized by the recombinase ...
Marshall Stark, Chris Proudfoot
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Genome engineering in Bacillus anthracis using tyrosine site-specific recombinases [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Tyrosine site-specific recombinases (T-SSR) are polynucleotidyltransferases that catalyze cutting and joining reactions between short specific DNA sequences. We developed three systems for performing genetic modifications in Bacillus anthracis that use T-
Stephen Leppla +2 more
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Redesigning Recombinase Specificity for Safe Harbor Sites in the Human Genome. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Site-specific recombinases (SSRs) are valuable tools for genetic engineering due to their ability to manipulate DNA in a highly specific manner. Engineered zinc-finger and TAL effector recombinases, in particular, are two classes of SSRs composed of ...
Mark C Wallen +2 more
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Computational characterization of recombinase circuits for periodic behaviors
iScience, 2023 Summary: Recombinases are site-specific proteins found in nature that are capable of rearranging DNA. This function has made them promising gene editing tools in synthetic biology, as well as key elements in complex artificial gene circuits implementing ...
Judith Landau +3 more
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Prediction of designer-recombinases for DNA editing with generative deep learning
Nature Communications, 2022 Design of recombinases with new target sites is usually achieved through cycles of directed molecular evolution. Here the authors report Recombinase Generator, RecGen, an algorithm for generation of designer-recombinases; they perform experimental ...
Lukas Theo Schmitt +3 more
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