invertasome

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

invert +‎ -a- +‎ -some

Noun[edit]

invertasome (plural invertasomes)

  1. (biochemistry) A nucleoprotein complex that causes inversion of a DNA sequence
    • 2015 June 8, Yong Chang, Reid C. Johnson, “Controlling tetramer formation, subunit rotation and DNA ligation during Hin-catalyzed DNA inversion”, in Nucleic Acids Research‎[1], volume 43, →DOI:
      A single rotation will be favored in the Fis/enhancer-associated invertasome complex in part because the DNA segment between hixL-1 and the enhancer is only 155 bp.
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