Processing closely spaced lesions during Nucleotide Excision Repair triggers mutagenesis in E. coli.

It is generally assumed that most point mutations are fixed when damage containing template DNA undergoes replication, either right at the fork or behind the fork during gap filling. Here we provide genetic evidence for a pathway, dependent on Nucleotide Excision Repair, that induces mutations when...

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Main Authors: Régine Janel-Bintz, Rita L Napolitano, Asako Isogawa, Shingo Fujii, Robert P Fuchs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-07-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5521853?pdf=render