Fis targets assembly of the xis nucleoprotein filament to promote excisive recombination by phage lambda.
Papagiannis, C.V., Sam, M.D., Abbani, M.A., Yoo, D., Cascio, D., Clubb, R.T., Johnson, R.C.(2007) J.Mol.Biol. 367: 328-343
- PubMed: 17275024 
- DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.12.071
- PubMed Abstract: 
The phage-encoded Xis protein is the major determinant controlling the direction of recombination in phage lambda. Xis is a winged-helix DNA binding protein that cooperatively binds to the attR recombination site to generate a curved microfilament, w ...