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Adaptive mutation sequences reproduced by mismatch repair deficiency.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 19 Dec 1995
Longerich S, Galloway A M, Harris R S, Wong C, Rosenberg S M
Abstract excerpt
Adaptive reversions of a lac frameshift mutation in Escherichia coli are -1 deletions in small mononucleotide repeats, whereas growth-dependent reversions are heterogeneous. The adaptive mutations resemble instability of simple repeats, which, in hereditary colon cancer, in yeast, and in E. coli occurs in the absence of mismatch repair. The postulate that mismatch repair is disabled transiently during adaptive...
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