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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Le O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC206931 | biostudies-other | 1993 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Le O O Shen B B Iismaa S E SE Burgess B K BK
Journal of bacteriology 19931201 23
An Azotobacter vinelandii homolog to the Salmonella typhimurium mutS gene was discovered upstream of the fdxA gene. The product of this gene is much more similar to S. typhimurium MutS than either is to the HexA protein of Streptococcus pneumoniae. An A. vinelandii delta mutS mutant strain was shown to have a spontaneous mutation frequency 65-fold greater than that of the wild type. ...[more]