Category:GO:0070987 ! error-free translesion synthesis

name: error-free translesion synthesis
namespace: biological_process
def: "The conversion of DNA-damage induced single-stranded gaps into large molecular weight DNA after replication by using a specialized DNA polymerase or replication complex to insert a defined nucleotide across the lesion. This process does not remove the replication-blocking lesions but does not causes an increase in the endogenous mutation level. For S. cerevisiae, RAD30 encodes DNA polymerase eta, which incorporates two adenines. When incorporated across a thymine-thymine dimer, it does not increase the endogenous mutation level." [GOC:elh]
comment: Note that 'error-free' does not mean that literally zero errors occur during DNA synthesis, but that the error rate is low, comparable to that of DNA synthesis during replication.
is_a: GO:0019985 ! translesion synthesis

AmiGO <GOterm>GO:0070987</GOterm>
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