Spontaneous mutation in stationary-phase Escherichia coli WP2 carrying various DNA repair alleles.

doi:10.1016/0165-7992(93)90045-w

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Spontaneous mutation in stationary-phase Escherichia coli WP2 carrying various DNA repair alleles.

Mutation research - 1 Jul 1993

Bridges B A

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Escherichia coli WP2 trpE65(ochre), when grown to stationary phase and plated on glucose salts medium, gave rise to slow growing tryptophan-independent mutants which formed increasing numbers of visible colonies from about day 6 onwards. These mutants were neither revertants at the ochre codon no...

Topics

Adenosine Triphosphatases
Alleles
Bacterial Proteins
DNA Polymerase I
DNA Repair
DNA-Binding Proteins
Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli Proteins
Genes, Bacterial
Genes, Suppressor
Mutation
RNA, Transfer
SOS Response, Genetics
Tryptophan

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