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recA protein promotes homologous pairing and strand exchange by an ordered reaction in which the protein first polymerizes on single-stranded DNA. This presynaptic intermediate, which can be formed either in the presence or absence of Escherichia coli single-stranded binding protein (SSB), has been isolated by gel filtration and characterized. At saturation, purified complexes contained one molecule of recA protein per 3.6 nucleotide residues of single-stranded DNA. Complexes that had been formed in the presence of SSB contained up to one molecule of SSB per 15 nucleotide residues, but the content of SSB in different preparations of isolated complexes appeared to be inversely related to the content of recA protein. Even when they have lost as much as a third of their recA protein, presynaptic complexes can retain activity, because the formation of stable joint molecules depends principally on the binding of recA protein to the single-stranded DNA in the localized region that corresponds to the end of the duplex substrate.
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