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Overexpression of vsr in Escherichia coli is mutagenic
K M Doiron1, S Viau, M Koutroumanis
1Biology Department, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Journal of Bacteriology
|July 1, 1996
Abstract:
Overexpression of vsr in Escherichia coli stimulates transition and frameshift mutations. The pattern of mutations suggests that mutagenesis is due to saturation or inactivation of dam-directed mismatch repair.