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Some substitutions resulted in a complete loss or significant decrease of integration activity in vivo. The ability of the mutant proteins to cleave and ligate CTnDOT attachment site (attDOT) DNA in vitro in general paralleled the in vivo results. I also showed that the predicted three dimensional structure of the IntDOT core binding domain is similar to that of well-studied tyrosine recombinases. My results confirmed the hypothesis that IntDOT belongs to the tyrosine recombinase family. Previous DNA sequence analyses showed that CTnDOT att sites contain 5 base pair non-homologous coupling sequences which were assumed to define the putative staggered sites of cleavage. However, my cleavage assays showed that one of the cleavage sites is two base pairs away from the junction of CTnDOT and coupling sequence DNA. This site is in a region of homology that is conserved in CTnDOT att sites. I tested the ability of IntDOT to cleave and ligate activated attDOT substrates in the presence of mismatches. Unlike other tyrosine recombinases, the results revealed that IntDOT is able to perform ligation reactions even when all the bases within the crossover region are mispaired. I also showed that there is a strong bias in the order of strand exchanges during integrative recombination. The top strands are exchanged first in reactions that require two base pairs of homology between the partner sites adjacent to the sites of cleavage. The bottom strands are exchanged next in reactions that do not require homology between the partner sites. 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I also showed that the predicted three dimensional structure of the IntDOT core binding domain is similar to that of well-studied tyrosine recombinases. My results confirmed the hypothesis that IntDOT belongs to the tyrosine recombinase family. Previous DNA sequence analyses showed that CTnDOT att sites contain 5 base pair non-homologous coupling sequences which were assumed to define the putative staggered sites of cleavage. However, my cleavage assays showed that one of the cleavage sites is two base pairs away from the junction of CTnDOT and coupling sequence DNA. This site is in a region of homology that is conserved in CTnDOT att sites. I tested the ability of IntDOT to cleave and ligate activated attDOT substrates in the presence of mismatches. Unlike other tyrosine recombinases, the results revealed that IntDOT is able to perform ligation reactions even when all the bases within the crossover region are mispaired. I also showed that there is a strong bias in the order of strand exchanges during integrative recombination. The top strands are exchanged first in reactions that require two base pairs of homology between the partner sites adjacent to the sites of cleavage. The bottom strands are exchanged next in reactions that do not require homology between the partner sites. 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