Hamelin C, Alain R, Houde D, Berthiaume L. Mammalian cells contain a DNA-recombining activity that can be dissociated from topoisomerase activity.
Biosci Rep 1982;
2:527-33. [PMID:
6288140 DOI:
10.1007/bf01115252]
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Abstract
The role of the topoisomerase enzyme in DNA recombination was investigated by extracting chromosomal deoxyribonucleoproteins from a variety of cultured mammalian cells and assaying for the formation of recombinant DNA structures. Although each of the crude deoxyribonucleoprotein preparations contained topoisomerase activity, they did not all contain DNA-recombining activity. A distinct, perhaps novel, enzyme may therefore promote DNA recombination in these cell-free systems.
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