tyrosine-based site-specific recombinase activity

Term ID

GO:0009037

Synonyms

• site-specific tyrosine recombinase activity
• tyrosine recombinase

Definition

Catalysis of the formation of new phosphodiester bonds between a pair of short, unique DNA target sequences; occurs through a phosphotyrosyl intermediate in which the target sequence is first cleaved by the nucleophilic attack by a tyrosine in the active site. 11090626

References

Ontology

GO: Molecular Function    QuickGO    AmiGO