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A homolog of Escherichia coli RecA in mitochondria of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum.
DNA repair - 4 May 2004
Hasegawa Yasuna, Wakabayashi Masayuki, Nakamura Shogo, Kodaira Ken-ichi, Shinohara Hiroaki, Yasukawa Hiro
Abstract excerpt
The cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum expresses a gene encoding a 452-amino-acid polypeptide that is 47% identical to Escherichia coli RecA. A recA-deficient E. coli, JE6651, was transformed by pYSN1, which was designed to express the truncated form of the D. discoideum gene, and used in suppression assays. The viability of the transformant, JE6651(pYSN1), increased following UV irradiation or...
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