Cunningham R P, Shibata T, DasGupta C, Radding C M
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Single-stranded DNA, whether homologous or not, stimulates purified Escherichia coli recA protein to unwind duplex DNA. This helps to explain how recA promotes a search for homology in genetic recombination. As oligodeoxynucleotide also stimulate unwinding, a common mechanism may relate the function of recA protein in recombination to other functions (SOS) induced by oligonucleotides.
单链DNA,无论是否同源,都能刺激纯化的大肠杆菌recA蛋白解开双链DNA。这有助于解释recA如何在基因重组中促进同源性搜索。由于寡脱氧核苷酸也能刺激解旋,一种共同的机制可能将recA蛋白在重组中的功能与寡核苷酸诱导的其他功能(SOS)联系起来。