rec A protein
(Science: protein) A protein (40 kD) product of the rec (recombination) gene, that catalyses the pairing of a single stranded piece of dNA with its complementary sequence, displacing a loop of single stranded DNA (d loop).
It catalyses the aTP-driven exchange of dNA strands in genetic recombination. The product of the reaction consists of a duplex and a displaced single-stranded loop which has the shape of the letter d and is therefore called a d-loop structure.
ATP is hydrolyzed to aDP during the reaction; also has proteolytic activity.
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