The MutS protein of Escherichia coli is part of the dam-directed MutHLS mismatch repair
pathway which rectifies replication errors and which prevents recombination between …

The MutS protein is part of thedam-directed MutHLS mismatch repair pathway inEscherichia
coli. We have constructed deletion derivatives in the mutS gene, which retain the P-loop …

An Escherichia coli K-12 strain was constructed with a chromosomal deletion (mutS Δ 800)
in the mutS gene that produced the removal of the C-terminal 53 amino acids which are not …

The mutL gene product is part of the dam-directed mismatch repair system of Escherichia
coli but has no known enzymatic function. It forms a complex on heteroduplex DNA with the …

DNA mismatch repair in Escherichia coli has been shown to be involved in two distinct
processes: mutation avoidance, which removes potential mutations arising as replication …

We have previously reported that the Escherichia coli mutator strain mutD5 was defective in
the correction of bacteriophage M13mp2 heteroduplex DNA containing a TG mismatch …

Escherichia coli mutator mutD5 is the most potent mutator known. The mutD5 mutation
resides in the dnaQ gene encoding the proofreading exonuclease of DNA polymerase III …

ABSTRACT mutS mutators accelerate the bacterial mutation rate 100-to 1,000-fold and relax
the barriers that normally restrict homeologous recombination. These mutators thus afford …

The Dam-directed post-replicatve mismatch repair system of Escherichia coli removes base
pair mismatches from DNA. The products of the mutH, mutL and mutS genes, among others …

To investigate the mechanisms of spontaneous mutation in the Escherichia coli mutD5
mutator strain, 502 mutations generated in this strain in the N-terminal part of the lacI gene …