Please ASAP. Thank you. What is the mechanism of action for CRE  recombinase in the CRE-loxP system

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What is the mechanism of action for CRE  recombinase in the CRE-loxP system?

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Cre recombinase is tyrosine based enzyme and is derived from P1 bacteriophage.

It uses topoisomerase 1 like mechanism to carry out site specific recombination.

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