Closely opposed apurinic/apyrimidinic sites are converted to double strand breaks in Escherichia coli even in the absence of exonuclease III, endonuclease IV, nucleotide excision repair and AP lyase cleavage
Keywords: DSB، شکست دو رشته; AP, apurinic/apyrimidinic; BER, base excision repair; bp, base pairs; Carb, carbenicillin; Cm, chloramphenicol; DSB, double strand break; Fpg, formamidopyrimidine DNA glycosylase; furan, tetrahydrofuran; MDS, multiply damaged site; NER, nucleotide excisio