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Phage‐encoded serine recombinases (e.g.<jats:bold>φ</jats:bold>C31 integrase) cause integration and excision with strictly controlled directionality, and have an N‐terminal catalytic domain but much longer C‐terminal domains compared with the resolvase/invertases. This high molecular weight group also contains transposases (e.g. TnpX from Tn<jats:italic>4451</jats:italic>). Other transposases, which belong to a third structurally different group, are similar in size to the resolvase/invertases but have the DNA binding domain N‐terminal to the catalytic domain (e.g. IS<jats:italic>607</jats:italic>transposase). These three structural groups represented by the resolvase/invertases, the large serine recombinases and relatives of IS<jats:italic>607</jats:italic>transposase correlate with three major groupings seen in a phylogeny of the catalytic domains. These observations indicate that the serine recombinases are modular and that fusion of the catalytic domain to unrelated sequences has generated structural and functional diversity.</jats:p>","journal":"Molecular Microbiology","year":2002,"id":672820,"datarank":0.8619304785810231,"base_score":5.746203190540153,"endowment":5.746203190540153,"self_citation_contribution":0.8619304785810231,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.8619304785810231,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":312,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1757949,"name":"Helena M. 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