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Constitutive error-prone repair at sites of excision repair in Escherichia coli: a re-examination.
Biochimie - 1 Jan 2000
Bridges B A, Southworth M
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No evidence was found for production during incubation in chloramphenicol of a signal capable of inducing a rec-lex function (lysogenic induction) when protein synthesis was restored. The majority of UV-induced mutations to streptomycin resistance require lesions in the DNA and cannot be attributed to untargeted mutator activity. Therefore the loss of photoreversibility of these mutations occurring in the absence...
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