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. 1975 Apr;72(4):1373–1377. doi: 10.1073/pnas.72.4.1373

Site specific recA--independent recombination between bacterial plasmids: involvement of palindromes at the recombinational loci.

D J Kopecko, S N Cohen
PMCID: PMC432536  PMID: 1093180

Abstract

A recA-independent recombinational event is described which results in insertion of an entire plasmid genome at a unique site of another plasmid, and coincident excision of a precisely defined DNA segment originally present at the point of the insertion. The resulting recombinant molecules subsequently can undergo site-specific translocation of their component segments or inversion of their original DNA sequence orientation. The events observed entail nonreciprocal exchange of genetic material, and involve a discrete nucleotide sequences that is duplicated in rotationally symmetrical reverse orientation on plasmid DNA (i.e., inverted repeat; palindrome).

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