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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-12-2
pubmed:abstractText
When replication forks stall or collapse at sites of DNA damage, there are two avenues for fork rescue. Mutagenic translesion synthesis by a special class of DNA polymerases can move a fork past the damage, but can leave behind mutations. The alternative nonmutagenic pathways for fork repair involve cellular recombination systems. In bacteria, nonmutagenic repair of replication forks may occur as often as once per cell per generation, and is the favored path for fork restoration under normal growth conditions. Replication fork repair is almost certainly the major function of bacterial recombination systems, and was probably the impetus for the evolution of recombination systems. Increasingly, the nonmutagenic repair of replication forks is seen as a major function of eukaryotic recombination systems as well.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:author
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
107-20
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:articleTitle
The nonmutagenic repair of broken replication forks via recombination.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 433 Babcock Drive, Madison, WI 53706-1544, USA. cox@biochem.wisc.edu