"Rec A Recombinases" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A family of recombinases initially identified in BACTERIA. They catalyze the ATP-driven exchange of DNA strands in GENETIC RECOMBINATION. The product of the reaction consists of a duplex and a displaced single-stranded loop, which has the shape of the letter D and is therefore called a D-loop structure.
| Descriptor ID |
D011938
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.739.650 D08.811.913.696.445.692
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