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Effect of the recU suppressors sms and subA on DNA repair and homologous recombination in Bacillus subtilis.
Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG - 1 Jan 2002
Carrasco B, Fernández S, Asai K, Ogasawara N, Alonso J C
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In Bacillus subtilis, mutant alleles of the genes sms and subA partially suppress the recombination phenotype of recU cells. When present in an otherwise Rec(+) strain, Delta sms and Delta subA alleles render cells slightly sensitive to DNA-damaging agents, and impair chromosomal transformation (3- to 10-fold reduction), but do not affect plasmid transformation (less than 1.5-fold reduction). The Delta sms and...
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