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Escherichia coli DNA polymerase IV contributes to spontaneous mutagenesis at coding sequences but not microsatellite alleles.
Mutation research - 1 Jun 2007
Jacob Kimberly D, Eckert Kristin A
Abstract excerpt
Slipped strand mispairing during DNA synthesis is one proposed mechanism for microsatellite or short tandem repeat (STR) mutation. However, the DNA polymerase(s) responsible for STR mutagenesis have not been determined. In this study, we investigated the effect of the Escherichia colidinB gene product (Pol IV) on mononucleotide and dinucleotide repeat stability, using an HSV-tk gene episomal reporter system for...
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