Imágenes directas de la nucleación y el crecimiento de RecA en moléculas individuales de ssDNA recubierto con SSB

Jason C Bell1, Jody L Plank, Christopher C Dombrowski

  • 1Department of Microbiology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA.

Nature
|October 30, 2012
PubMed
Resumen

El ensamblaje de la proteína RecA de Escherichia coli en el ADN es esencial para la reparación del ADN. Este estudio revela que RecA forma filamentos a través de un proceso de dos pasos en el ADN recubierto con SSB, crucial para la integridad genómica.

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