Poteete Anthony R, Wang Hsinju R, Foster Patricia L
Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655, USA.
J Bacteriol. 2002 Jul;184(13):3753-5. doi: 10.1128/JB.184.13.3753-3755.2002.
Replacement of the recBCD genes of Escherichia coli with the red recombination genes of bacteriophage lambda results in a strain in which adaptive mutation occurs at an elevated frequency. Like RecBCD-dependent adaptive mutation, Red-mediated adaptive mutation is dependent upon recA and ruvABC functions.