A comparison between the efficiency of recombinase-mediated cassette exchange (RMCE) reactions catalyzed in Escherichia coli by the site-specific recombinases Flp of yeast and Int of coliphage HK022 has revealed that an Flp-catalyzed RMCE reaction is more efficient than an Int-HK022 catalyzed reaction. In contrast, an RMCE reaction with 1 pair of frt sites and 1 pair of att sites catalyzed in the presence of both recombinases is very inefficient. However, the same reaction catalyzed by each recombinase individually supplied in a sequential order is very efficient, regardless of the order. Atomic force microscopy images of Flp with its DNA substrates show that only 1 pair of recombination sites forms a synaptic complex with the recombinase. The results suggest that the RMCE reaction is sequential.
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