Survival of phage M13 with uracils on on
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SchοΏ½nemann, Stefan ;Schulte-Frohlinde, Dietrich
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Article
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1992
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Springer
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English
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The survival of M13 DNA was studied after partial replacement of thymine by uracil in the bacteriophage. Uracils carry the same genetic information as the thymines. Nevertheless in Escherichia coli wild-type cells, uracils in DNA are replaced by thymines by excision repair initiated by uracil-DNA gl