A feature of several site-specific recombination systems currently under study is that they can reduce the supercoiling of the substrate and produce knots or catenanes in addition to rearranging DNA sequences. The topological changes can be analyzed to reveal specific information about the mechanism of recombination.
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Cozzarelli et al. (1984) studied this question.
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