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. 1993 Sep 17;261(5128):1571-4.
doi: 10.1126/science.8372351.

A UV-sensitive mutant of Arabidopsis defective in the repair of pyrimidine-pyrimidinone(6-4) dimers

A B Britt  1 , J J Chen, D Wykoff, D Mitchell
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A UV-sensitive mutant of Arabidopsis defective in the repair of pyrimidine-pyrimidinone(6-4) dimers

A B Britt et al. Science. .

Abstract

Plants are continually subjected to ultraviolet-B (UV-B) irradiation (290 to 320 nanometers) as a component of sunlight, which induces a variety of types of damage to the plant DNA. Repair of the two major DNA photoproducts was analyzed in wild-type Arabidopsis thaliana and in a mutant derivative whose growth was sensitive to UV-B radiation. In wild-type seedlings, repair of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers occurred more slowly in the dark than in the light; repair of this photoproduct was not affected in the mutant. Repair, in the dark, of pyrimidine-pyrimidinone(6-4) dimers was defective in the UV-sensitive mutant.

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