Furthermore, in the XL-1 Red E.coli cells where all three major DNA mismatch repair genes were defective, Oct5 had a mutation rate of 0.8%, 11 times higher than that in DH5α; Oct11b had a mutation rate of 3.0%, which is also higher than the 1.3% mutation rate found in DH5α although the difference did not reach statistical significance.
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