AmiGO: mismatch repair Details

Term Information

Accession

GO:0006298

Ontology

biological process

Synonyms

related: mismatch repair, MutL-like pathway

related: MutS/MutL/MutH pathway

narrow: long patch mismatch repair system

exact: MMR

alt_id: GO:0006300

Definition

A system for the correction of errors in which an incorrect base, which cannot form hydrogen bonds with the corresponding base in the parent strand, is incorporated into the daughter strand. The mismatch repair system promotes genomic fidelity by repairing base-base mismatches, insertion-deletion loops and heterologies generated during DNA replication and recombination. [source: ISBN:0198506732, PMID:11687886]

Comment

None

Subset

Unavailable

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