GO biological process ontology term - GO:0042148 - DNA strand invasion
Term summary
- ID
- GO:0042148
- Name
- DNA strand invasion
- Ontology or CV name
- GO biological process
- Definition
- The process in which the nucleoprotein complex (composed of the broken single-strand DNA and the recombinase) searches and identifies a region of homology in intact duplex DNA. The broken single-strand DNA displaces the like strand and forms Watson-Crick base pairs with its complement, forming a duplex in which each strand is from one of the two recombining DNA molecules.
