Using cryo-EM, the authors study the RecF–DNA, RecFR–DNA, RecOR–DNA and RecFOR–DNA complexes. Combining the information from these structures, they provide new insight in how the RecFOR proteins cooperate to recognize ss–ds junctions and promote bacterial recombination.
- Shivlee Nirwal
- Mariusz Czarnocki-Cieciura
- Marcin Nowotny