Sirois S, Szatmari G
Département de Microbiologie et Immunologie, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada.
J Bacteriol. 1995 Jul;177(14):4183-6. doi: 10.1128/jb.177.14.4183-4186.1995.
XerC and XerD are site-specific recombinases of the lambda integrase family which resolve multimeric replicons to monomers by acting at specific sites such as cer, ckr, nmr, parB, and psi, which are found in plasmids, or at the dif site found in the Escherichia coli chromosome. By using Southern hybridizations to cloned E. coli xerC and xerD genes and a cer-nmr plasmid-based resolution assay, the presence of these genes in several species of Enterobacteriaceae is shown.
XerC和XerD是λ整合酶家族的位点特异性重组酶,它们通过作用于特定位点(如质粒中发现的cer、ckr、nmr、parB和psi,或大肠杆菌染色体中发现的dif位点)将多聚体复制子分解为单体。通过对克隆的大肠杆菌xerC和xerD基因进行Southern杂交以及基于cer-nmr质粒的分解分析,表明这些基因存在于几种肠杆菌科细菌中。