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Host cell reactivation and UV reactivation and mutagenesis of UV-irradiated phage λ were measured in tsl recA + and tsl recA host mutants. Host cell reactivation was slightly more efficient in the tsl recA strain compared to the tsl + recA strain. Phage was UV-reactivated in the tsl recA strain with about one-half the efficiency of that in the wild type strain, but there was no corresponding mutagenesis of phage. UV-reactivation was also slightly lower and mutagenesis several-fold lower than normal in the tsl recA + strain. To account for these observations, we propose that there is an inducible, error-free pathway of DNA repair in E. coli that competes with error-prone repair for repair of phage lesions.
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Mount, D.W., Kosel, C.K. & Walker, A. Inducible, error-free DNA repair in tsl recA mutants of E. coli . Molec. Gen. Genet. 146, 37–41 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00267980
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