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Transposases

"Transposases" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Enzymes that recombine DNA segments by a process which involves the formation of a synapse between two DNA helices, the cleavage of single strands from each DNA helix and the ligation of a DNA strand from one DNA helix to the other. The resulting DNA structure is called a Holliday junction which can be resolved by DNA REPLICATION or by HOLLIDAY JUNCTION RESOLVASES.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Transposases" by people in this website by year, and whether "Transposases" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 18 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 1994 and 1995
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