The present invention is in the field of
recombinase and provides a method of producing site-specific
DNA recombination comprising the steps of: a) contacting a
nucleic acid comprising at least a first and a second recognition site, which are substantially identical or substantially reverse complementary to each other, with a
protein having
recombinase activity; and b) enabling the
protein with
recombinase activity to generate site-specific
DNA recombination, wherein the recognition site comprises a first half site, a spacer region and a second half site, and wherein substantially identical or substantially reverse complementary to each other means that the
nucleotide sequences of the first and second half-sites in the first recognition site may deviate from the
nucleotide sequences of the first and second half-sites in the second recognition site by at most two nucleotides, wherein the
protein having recombinase activity comprises an
amino acid sequence having at least 80% identity to any one of SEQ ID NO: 1 to 9, and wherein the at least two recognition sites comprise: a
nucleic acid sequence of any one of SEQ ID NO: 10 to 17 or a functional
mutant thereof, or a
nucleic acid sequence reverse complementary to any one of SEQ ID NO: 10 to 17 or a functional
mutant thereof, wherein the functional
mutant comprises a
nucleic acid sequence having at least 60%
sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 10 to 17.