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Increased transcription decreases the spontaneous mutation rate at the thymidine kinase locus in human cells.
Mutation research - 5 Jun 1998
Lippert M J, Chen Q, Liber H L
Abstract excerpt
Transcription increases DNA repair efficiency and modulates the distribution of certain types of DNA damage. Furthermore, increased transcription level stimulates spontaneous mutation rate in yeast. We explored whether transcription level affects spontaneous mutation rate in human cells. We first developed two thymidine kinase (tk) inducible human cell lines using the Gal4-Estrogen receptor system. In our TK6i-G3...
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