Despite the importance of mismatch repair for genome stability, many Archaea and almost all Actinobacteria lack MutS and MutL proteins. Here the authors, usingMycobacterium smegmatisas a model, report that NucS/EndoMS endonuclease acts in a distinct mismatch repair pathway.
- A. Castañeda-García
- A. I. Prieto
- J. Blázquez
