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. 1983 Nov;156(2):962–965. doi: 10.1128/jb.156.2.962-965.1983

Anaerobic cultures of Salmonella typhimurium do not exhibit inducible proteolytic function of the recA gene and recBC function.

M L Droffner, N Yamamoto
PMCID: PMC217927  PMID: 6355068

Abstract

In a strict anaerobic environment, lack of expression of bacterial recBC function and recA regulatory functions for the SOS repair system is demonstrated by the use of the carcinogenesis-mutagenesis assay and Salmonella phage P22 mutants requiring these host functions for replication. Therefore, we suggest that error-prone repair (SOS repair) is confined to aerobic environments in facultative anaerobes.

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