SOS repair can be about as effective for single-stranded DNA as for double-stranded DNA and even more so.
AUTOR(ES)
Tessman, I
RESUMO
As ordinarily measured, the SOS repair of damaged DNA by Weigle reactivation appears to be more effective for double-stranded (ds) than for single-stranded (ss) DNA bacteriophages. A complicating feature, which is usually not considered, is the possibility of DNA-protein cross-linking of ssDNA to the viral capsid, which would conceivably be an extraneous source of nonreactivable lesions. This idea is supported in studies of phage S13 by the observation that photoreactivation more than doubles when naked ssDNA is substituted for encapsidated ssDNA as the UV target. The same effect was observed for Weigle reactivation; there was little, if any, difference in the reactivation of ssDNA and dsDNA when naked DNA was irradiated. Moreover, in a uvrA mutant, ssDNA actually had the advantage; Weigle reactivation was then more than twice as effective for ssDNA as for dsDNA. It is also shown that when a suitable measure of Weigle mutagenesis is used, there is no convincing evidence that dsDNA is mutagenized more effectively than ssDNA.
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