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Imaging Mismatch Repair and Cellular Responses to DNA Damage in Bacillus subtilis
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Imaging Mismatch Repair and Cellular Responses to DNA Damage in Bacillus subtilis

Published on: February 8, 2010

Escherichia coli mutS-encoded protein binds to mismatched DNA base pairs

S S Su, P Modrich

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    |July 1, 1986
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