The genetics of the Luria-Latarjet effect in bacteriophage T4: evidence for the involvement of multiple DNA repair pathways.

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The Luria-Latarjet effect is an increase in resistance of a virus to DNA damage during infection of a host. It has often been assumed to involve recombinational repair, but this has never been demonstrated experimentally. Using nine bacteriophage (phage) T4 mutants, I present evidence indicating that, for phage T4, the Luria-Latarjet effect is due to three repair pathways-excision repair,...

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