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Evaluation of the Escherichia coli HK82 and BS87 strains as tools for AlkB studies.
DNA repair - 1 Mar 2016
Mielecki D, Sikora A, Wrzesiński M, Nieminuszczy J, Detman A, Żuchniewicz K, Gromadka R, Grzesiuk E
Abstract excerpt
Within a decade the family of AlkB dioxygenases has been extensively studied as a one-protein DNA/RNA repair system in Escherichia coli but also as a group of proteins of much wider functions in eukaryotes. Two strains, HK82 and BS87, are the most commonly used E. coli strains for the alkB gene mutations. The aim of this study was to assess the usefulness of these alkB mutants in different aspects of research on...
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