PROTEINS THAT PROMOTE DNA INVERSION AND DELETION

Recent studies on site-specific DNA recombination reactions have provi ded new information on the structure of the DNA-binding and catalytic domains of the related Hin and gamma delta resolvase recombinases, res pectively, and the interaction of the recombinational enhancer protein Fis with DNA. These advances lay the foundation for detailed structur al studies of recombination complexes and for elucidating the enzymolo gy of DNA strand exchange in this family of recombinases.