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An example is the recognition of heteroduplex DNA by the mutS protein as a means to detect single base mismatches.
Synonym: glms gene product, muts gene product (clostridium) Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page ...
For example, mutations in the genes responsible for methyl-directed mismatch repair, designated mutS, mutL, and mutH, increase the spontaneous mutation frequency about 1000-fold. See Mutator strains.
See also: Gene, Amino acid, Enzyme, Sequence, Polymerase
 
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