tyrosine-based site-specific recombinase activity

id: GO:0009037
name: tyrosine-based site-specific recombinase activity
namespace: molecular_function
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: 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.

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