DNA repair: Getting past a lesion - at a cost

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作者
Bridges, BA [1 ]
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[1] Univ Sussex, MRC, Cell Mutat Unit, Brighton BN1 9RR, E Sussex, England
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10.1016/S0960-9822(07)00552-0
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
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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