Article
Mechanism of SOS-induced targeted and untargeted mutagenesis in E. coli.
Biochimie - 1 Jan 2000
Maenhaut-Michel G
Abstract excerpt
This paper retraces the evolution of hypotheses concerning mechanisms of SOS induced mutagenesis. Moreover, it reports some recent data which support a new model for the mechanism of targeted and untargeted mutagenesis in E. coli. In summary, the SOS mutator effect, which is responsible for untar...
Topics
- Bacteriophage lambda
- DNA Polymerase III
- DNA Repair
- DNA Replication
- DNA, Bacterial
- DNA, Viral
- Escherichia coli
- Genes, Bacterial
- Mutagens
- Mutation
- Photochemistry
- Pyrimidine Dimers
- Rec A Recombinases
- Ultraviolet Rays