Two long-awaited structures of serine and tyrosine site-specific recombinases bound to DNA show how reactions that are basically the same can be carried out in surprisingly different ways.
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Rice, P. Resolving integral questions in site-specific recombination. Nat Struct Mol Biol 12, 641–643 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb0805-641
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