Reaction: Endonucleolytic cleavage at a junction such as a reciprocal single-stranded crossover between two homologous DNA duplexes (Holliday junction)
Other name(s): Hje endonuclease; Holliday junction endonuclease CCE1; Holliday junction resolvase; Holliday junction-cleaving endonuclease; Holliday junction-resolving endoribonuclease; RusA Holliday junction resolvase; RusA endonuclease; RuvC endonuclease; SpCCe1 Holliday junction resolvase; crossover junction endoribonuclease; cruciform-cutting endonuclease; endo X3; endonuclease RuvC; endonuclease VII; endonuclease X3; resolving enzyme CCE1
Comments: The enzyme from Saccharomyces cerevisiae has no endonuclease or exonuclease activity on single-stranded or double-stranded DNA molecules that do not contain Holliday junctions.
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References:
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6. Middleton, C.L., Parker, J.L., Richard, D.J., White, M.F. and Bond, C.S. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of Hje, a Holliday junction resolving enzyme from Sulfolobus solfataricus. Acta Crystallogr. D Biol. Crystallogr. 59 (2003) 171-173. [PMID: 12499561]