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10. During repairs the mismatch repair machinery has to distinguish the old DNA strand from the...

10. During repairs the mismatch repair machinery has to distinguish the old DNA strand from the new strand, how does it do this?

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DNA is methylated, before DNA replication both strands of DNA are methylated but after replication, the newly formed strand is not methylated so DNA is hemimethylated so mismatch repair machinery distinguishes the new strand from old strand based on the methylation pattern, the strand which is not methylated is the new strand.

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