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Mismatch repair: the praying hands of fidelity
1Institute of Medical Radiobiology of the University of Zürich and the Paul Scherrer Institute, August Forel-Strasse 7, CH-8008, Zürich, Switzerland. jiricny@imr.unizh.ch
Current Biology : CB
|November 21, 2000
Abstract:
High-resolution crystal structures have recently been solved for the mismatch binding protein MutS of Escherichia coli and its Thermus aquaticus homologue; they show how these factors recognise such structurally diverse substrates as base-base mismatches and insertion/deletion loops.