Posters and lectures presented at the Seventh International Conference on Bioinorganic
Chemistry (ICBIC) in Lubeck, Germany, last year was divided into 16 sections, including …

More than 3000 type II restriction endonucleases have been discovered. They recognize
short, usually palindromic, sequences of 4–8 bp and, in the presence of Mg2+, cleave the …

Numerous studies, both in enzymatic and nonenzymatic catalysis, have been undertaken to
understand the way by which metal ions, especially zinc ions, promote the hydrolysis of …

Restriction endonucleases are enzymes which recognize short DNA sequences and cleave
the DNA in both strands. Depending on the enzymological properties different types are …

Holliday junction resolvases (HJRs) are key enzymes of DNA recombination. A detailed
computer analysis of the structural and evolutionary relationships of HJRs and related …

Proteins belonging to PD-(D/E) XK phosphodiesterases constitute a functionally diverse
superfamily with representatives involved in replication, restriction, DNA repair and tRNA …

Type II restriction enzymes are characterized by their remarkable specificity and simplicity.
They require only divalent metals (such as Mg 2+ or Mn 2+) as cofactors to catalyze the …

The crystal structure of the NgoMIV restriction endonuclease in complex with cleaved DNA
has been determined at 1.6 Å resolution. The crystallographic asymmetric unit contains a …

The catalytic mechanisms of type II restriction endonucleases and homing endonucleases
are discussed and compared. Brief reviews of the chemistry of phosphoryl transfers and …

Transposition requires a coordinated series of DNA breakage and joining reactions. The
Tn7 transposase contains two proteins: TnsA, which carries out DNA breakage at the 5 …