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Transient mutators: a semiquantitative analysis of the influence of translation and transcription errors on mutation rates.

Genetics - 1 Nov 1991

Ninio J

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A population of bacteria growing in a nonlimiting medium includes mutator bacteria and transient mutators defined as wild-type bacteria which, due to occasional transcription or translation errors, display a mutator phenotype. A semiquantitative theoretical analysis of the steady-state composition of an Escherichia coli population suggests that true strong genotypic mutators produce about 3 x 10(-3) of the single...

Topics

Bacteria
DNA Repair
DNA Replication
Genotype
Mutagenesis
Phenotype
Protein Biosynthesis
Transcription, Genetic

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PMID: 1752431
DOI: 10.1093/genetics/129.3.957
PMCID: PMC1204761

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