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DNA repair: getting past a lesion - at a cost.
Current biology : CB - 3 Dec 1998
Bridges B A
Abstract excerpt
Bacteria survive many types of synthesis-blocking DNA lesion by inducing a number of proteins that enable their polymerases to synthesize past a lesion, albeit at the cost of an increased mutation rate. This process has now been convincingly achieved in vitro, opening the way to a fuller understanding of the mechanism.
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