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Nature 409, 33-34 (4 January 2001) | doi:10.1038/35051208
DNA replication: SOS polymerases
Fumio Hanaoka
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Abstract
The standard DNA-replicating machinery cannot copy damaged DNA, so SOS enzymes come to the rescue. It now seems, at least in some bacteria, that different enzymes are required for different types of damage.
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