The telomere resolvase, TelA, utilizes an underwound pre-cleavage intermediate to promote hairpin telomere formation

• Mahrokh Balouchi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Dept. of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Shu Hui Huang,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliation Dept. of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Siobhan L. McGrath,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation The Global Institute for Food Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Kerri Kobryn

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kerri.kobryn@usask.ca

  Affiliation Dept. of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8380-954X

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