Pol III activity is indispensable for DNA repair through the ESDSA pathway. D. radiodurans can survive doses of radiation as high as 7 kGy, which shatter its 3.2 Mb genome into 20–30 kb ...

This historical perspective integrates 50 years of research on SOS mutagenesis in Escherichia coli with the proverbial '3R' functions—replication, repair and recombination—that feature DNA ...