Table 2. Effect of MMR genes on recombination with galK point and insertion mutations.

	Gal+ recombinants per 108 viable cells
	galKam		galK<>cat-sacB
MMR	100	101	100	101
Allele*
mut+	4.7 × 105	2.4 × 104	1.2 × 105	4.0 × 103
ΔmutH	2.1 × 107	5.8 × 105	5.2 × 104	1.7 × 103
ΔmutL	2.2 × 107	7.5 × 105	1.0 × 105	9.0 × 102
ΔmutS	3.6 × 107	1.5 × 106	1.4 × 105	3.3 × 103
ΔuvrD	2.7 × 107	1.6 × 106	†	†
Δdam	2.7 × 106	2.6 × 105	2.3 × 105	2.5 × 103

^*Spontaneous reversion to a Gal⁺ phenotype occurs at a frequency of ≈1 per 10⁸ cells of strain HME6 mut⁺ and 24 per 10⁸ cells of strain HME6 mutS.

^†Strain has not been made.