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Genetic dissection of DNA damage tolerance in Bacillus subtilis: RecA and recombination functions regulate translesion synthesis.
Nucleic acids research - 3 Jul 2026
Torres Rubén, Alonso Juan C
Abstract excerpt
Mutagenesis is a fundamental, yet poorly understood, source of genetic variation that underpins microbial evolution and adaptation. When the Bacillus subtilis replicative DNA polymerase (DNAP) PolC encounters DNA lesions induced by endogenous or exogenous insults, it stalls and disassembles. If error-free DNA damage tolerance (DDT) sub-pathways fail to circumvent the lesion, bipartite translesion synthesis (TLS)...
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