Human mismatch repair system corrects errors produced during lagging strand replication more effectively
Maria Andrianova, Georgii A Bazykin, Sergey Nikolaev, Vladimir Seplyarskiy
The paper investigates human mismatch repair (MMR) efficiency in correcting errors from leading and lagging DNA strands, finding that lagging strand mutations are repaired ~3 times more effectively in MMR-proficient cells.
bioRxiv · Mar 23, 2016Molecular Biology