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Defects in the error prevention oxidized guanine system potentiate stationary-phase mutagenesis in Bacillus subtilis.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jan 2009
Vidales Luz E, Cárdenas Lluvia C, Robleto Eduardo, Yasbin Ronald E, Pedraza-Reyes Mario
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies showed that a Bacillus subtilis strain deficient in mismatch repair (MMR; encoded by the mutSL operon) promoted the production of stationary-phase-induced mutations. However, overexpression of the mutSL operon did not completely suppress this process, suggesting that additional DNA repair mechanisms are involved in the generation of stationary-phase-associated mutants in this bacterium. In...
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