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MutT protein specifically hydrolyses a potent mutagenic substrate for DNA synthesis.
Nature - 16 Jan 1992
Maki H, Sekiguchi M
Abstract excerpt
Errors in the replication of DNA are a major source of spontaneous mutations, and a number of cellular functions are involved in correction of these errors to keep the frequency of spontaneous mutations very low. We report here a novel mechanism which prevents replicational errors by degrading a potent mutagenic substrate for DNA synthesis. This error-avoiding process is catalysed by a protein encoded by the mutT...
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