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SOS response

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SOS response [¦es¦ō′es ri‚späns]
(genetics)
A bacterial deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) repair system in which cell division and DNA replication are blocked, and DNA repair, recombination, and mutation genes are induced.


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Correlation of quinolone MIC and inhibition of DNA, RNA and protein synthesis and induction of the SOS response in Escherichia coli.
In what biologists call the SOS response, the bacterium activates a protein called RecA.
Historically, the expression of bacterial SOS response genes was used for detecting genotoxicity of chemicals.
 
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