The use of regular isotopy in the topological description of site-specific DNA recombination processes

✍ Scribed by Brian J. Hand

• Book ID: 102975759
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 506 KB
• Volume: 176
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-5193
• DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1995.0185

✦ Synopsis

A recently developed polynomial invariant of regular isotopy is used to give a topological description of site-specific DNA recombination catalyzed by Tn3 resolvase and phage Mu Gin invertase.

7 1995 Academic Press Limited F. 5. The unknot U0, which is a simple, oriented circle. The S-polynomial is normalized as SU 0 =1.