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We find that <jats:italic>rad13Δ, rad15</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>rad16Δ</jats:italic>, which are the S. <jats:italic>pombe</jats:italic> homologues of the excision‐defective <jats:italic>Saccharomyces cerevisiae rad2, rad3</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>rad1</jats:italic>, respectively, repair lesions somewhat more slowly than the wild type, but still have considerable repair capacity. <jats:italic>rad2Δ</jats:italic>, also a presumed excision‐defective mutant, behaves similarly. <jats:italic>radS and rad9δ</jats:italic>, which belong to different phenotypic groups, repair lesions at the same rate as wild‐type cells. These findings provide new evidence that <jats:italic>S. pombe</jats:italic> has a second repair system for removing ultraviolet damage, which is absent in S. <jats:italic>cerevisiae.</jats:italic> Surprisingly, this second mechanism repairs lesions very efficiently; its possible nature is discussed.</jats:p>","journal":"Molecular Microbiology","year":1993,"id":36498,"datarank":3.0330356082889147,"base_score":4.060443010546419,"endowment":4.060443010546419,"self_citation_contribution":0.6090664515819629,"citation_network_contribution":2.423969156706952,"self_endowment_contribution":0.6090664515819629,"citer_contribution":2.423969156706952,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":57,"citer_count":38,"citers_with_citation_signal":35,"citers_with_endowment":35,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":184711,"name":"Antony M. 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