Modification of the suppressor phenotype of thymine requiring strains of Escherichia coli.

doi:10.1017/s0016672300029931

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Modification of the suppressor phenotype of thymine requiring strains of Escherichia coli.

Genetical research - 1 Dec 1991

Herrington M B, Basso J, Faraci M, Autexier C

Abstract excerpt

Thymine requiring strains of Escherichia coli suppress nonsense and frameshift mutations during translation. Strains with different genetic backgrounds exhibited different nonsense suppression spectra and showed differences in the apparent suppression efficiency. Part of this strain difference is...

Topics

Escherichia coli
Genes, Bacterial
Mutation
Phenotype
Suppression, Genetic
Thymidylate Synthase
Thymine

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