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A genetic assay for transcription errors reveals multilayer control of RNA polymerase II fidelity.
PLoS genetics - 1 Sept 2014
Irvin Jordan D, Kireeva Maria L, Gotte Deanna R, Shafer Brenda K, Huang Ingold, Kashlev Mikhail, Strathern Jeffrey N
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We developed a highly sensitive assay to detect transcription errors in vivo. The assay is based on suppression of a missense mutation in the active site tyrosine in the Cre recombinase. Because Cre acts as tetramer, background from translation errors are negligible. Functional Cre resulting from rare transcription errors that restore the tyrosine codon can be detected by Cre-dependent rearrangement of reporter...
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