[New paper alert 🚨 ] What happens when pneumococci 'slip' and 'add' just one extra A in a promoter spacer of a sugar scavenging gene? 🧬
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Barton et al. identify Streptococcus pneumoniae promoters containing repetitive nucleotide
sequences that promote DNA strand slippage and accumulation of promoter sequence mutations.
This drives popul...