Are adaptive mutations due to a decline in mismatch repair? The evidence is lacking.

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The levels of proteins required for methyl-directed mismatch repair appear to decline in stationary-phase and nutritionally-deprived cells of Escherichia coli. It has been hypothesized that error-correction by the system also declines, and this decline is responsible for adaptive or stationary-phase mutations. However, evidence in support of this hypothesis is lacking. The mismatch repair system is no less...

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