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Abstract
The correlation between 5-fluorouracil-induced resistance to ultraviolet (UV) light and the ability of bacterial cells to repair irradiation damage was investigated in various strains of Escherichia coli. Preincubation with 5-fluorouracil did not influence the dark-repair mechanism. It affected, however, the UV light-induced damage of cell division in filament-forming strains. It is suggested that the delay in postirradiation macromolecular synthesis of 5-fluorouracil-pretreated bacteria plays a decisive role in the recovery process leading to cross cell wall-forming ability in the damaged strains.Entities:
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Year: 1967 PMID: 5335972 PMCID: PMC276504 DOI: 10.1128/jb.93.2.749-753.1967
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Bacteriol ISSN: 0021-9193 Impact factor: 3.490