Abstract
The survival of UV-irradiated DNA of plasmid NTP16 was monitored after its transformation into recipient cells containing an essentially homologous undamaged plasmid, pLV9. The presence of pLV9 resulted in a substantial increase in the fraction of damaged NTP16 molecules which survived in the recipient cells. This enhanced survival requires the host uvrA+ and uvrB+ gene products, but not the host recA+ gene product. The requirement for both homologous DNA and the uvrA+ and uvrB+ gene products suggests that a novel repair process may act on plasmid DNA. Possible mechanisms for this process are considered.
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