Aberrant repair initiated by the adenine-DNA glycosylase does not play a role in UV-induced mutagenesis in Escherichia coli

Background DNA repair is essential to counteract damage to DNA induced by endo- and exogenous factors, to maintain genome stability. However, challenges to the faithful discrimination between damaged and non-damaged DNA strands do exist, such as mismatched pairs between two regular bases resulting f...

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Main Authors: Caroline Zutterling, Aibek Mursalimov, Ibtissam Talhaoui, Zhanat Koshenov, Zhiger Akishev, Amangeldy K. Bissenbaev, Gerard Mazon, Nicolas E. Geacintov, Didier Gasparutto, Regina Groisman, Dmitry O. Zharkov, Bakhyt T. Matkarimov, Murat Saparbaev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2018-12-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/6029.pdf