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An experimental solution for the Luria-Delbrück fluctuation problem in measuring hypermutation rates.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 8 Jun 1999
Bachl J, Dessing M, Olsson C, von Borstel R C, Steinberg C
Abstract excerpt
A cell line harboring all trans-acting elements necessary for hypermutation was transfected with a plasmid harboring the major cis-acting elements plus a green fluorescent protein gene containing a premature chain-termination codon. Transfected cells do not fluoresce unless the stop codon reverts. When a sizable cell population is purged of revertants by sorting, the frequency of mutants increases linearly with...
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