Mus81 is a eukaryotic resolvase
Mus81, a fission yeast protein related to a repair endonuclease, enables chromosomes to cross over during meiosis.
Nov 14, 2001
Resolvase is an enzyme that allows two chromosomes to cross over and is therefore essential to enable offspring to inherit a unique mixture of traits from their parents. Several resolvases are known in bacteria, but none have been isolated from eukaryotic cells. But, two papers published simultaneously in November
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In the second paper, Xiao-Bo Chen and colleagues found that human Mus81 resolves...