Los paquetes de RecA median el emparejamiento de homología entre hermanas distantes durante la reparación de la

Christian Lesterlin1, Graeme Ball1, Lothar Schermelleh1

  • 1Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK.

Nature
|December 24, 2013
PubMed
Resumen

La recombinación homóloga repara eficientemente las rupturas de doble cadena de ADN (DSB) en E. coli utilizando ADN distante de la hermana. Los paquetes de RecA guían los extremos rotos del ADN para la búsqueda de homologías de largo alcance, asegurando la integridad genética.

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