The “tale” of UmuD and its role in SOS m
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Martín Gonzalez; Roger Woodgate
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Article
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2002
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Recently, the __Escherichia coli umuD__ and __umuC__ genes have been shown to encode __E. coli__'s fifth DNA polymerase, pol V (consisting of a heterotrimer of UmuD′~2~C). The main function of pol V appears to be the bypass of DNA lesions that would otherwise block replication by pols I