Article
A proteomic approach to study msDNA function in Escherichia coli.
Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) - 1 Sept 2004
Jeong Mi-Ae, Lim Dongbin
Abstract excerpt
Retron is a prokaryotic genetic element that produces multicopy single-stranded DNA covalently linked to RNA (msDNA) by a reverse transcriptase. It was found that cells producing a large amount of msDNA, rather than those that did not, showed a higher rate of mutation. In order to understand the molecular mechanism connecting msDNA production to the high mutation rate the protein patterns were compared by two...
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