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. 1986 Jun;166(3):1141–1143. doi: 10.1128/jb.166.3.1141-1143.1986

New role for photoreversible pyrimidine dimers in induction of prototrophic mutations in excision-deficient Escherichia coli by UV light.

M Ruiz-Rubio, R Woodgate, B A Bridges, G Herrera, M Blanco
PMCID: PMC215246  PMID: 3519579

Abstract

UV mutagenesis to His+ in certain recA441 lexA51 bacteria was not photoreversible, indicating that pyrimidine dimers are not target lesions. Photoreversibility was observed in recA+ lexA51 bacteria, showing that pyrimidine dimers are needed to activate the recA+ protein (unlike the recA441 protein) to perform a function in UV mutagenesis distinct from cleavage of the lexA repressor.

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