What events does the RecA protein facilitate?

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What events does the RecA protein facilitate?

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DNA strands is composed of nucleotide base pairs sequence such as Adenine, guanine cytosine and thymine. Adenine pairs with thymine while guanine pairs with cytosine. If there is any deletion takes place in one or more pair of nucleotides gets deleted or altered this can lead to serious mutations and thus diseases or any abnormalities can occur in the normal functioning. These mutations can occur by factors such as physical factors (Radiation), chemical factors such as dyes etc.

However, our cells have DNA repair system which helps in correction of these deleted of altered base pairing in the DNA. There are various repairs methods such as Direct repair, excision repair, SOS repair etc. which are catalysed by various enzymes (photolyase, DNA ligase etc.) and proteins such as Rec A protein.

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