Transcription-repair coupling and mutation frequency decline.
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Mutation frequency decline (MFD) is the rapid and irreversible decrease in the frequency of certain damage-induced mutations that occurs in Escherichia coli when protein synthesis is transiently inhibited immediately after the damaging treatment (49). Transcription-repair coupling (TRC) is the preferential repair of transcribed regions at a faster rate compared to the rest of the genome (5). These two phenomena
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of bacteriology
دوره 175 23 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1993