Fine Epitope Mapping of Monoclonal Antibodies to the DNA Repair Protein, RadA.

Repair of DNA damage is vital to the health and survival of all organisms. In Escherichia coli, a protein known as RadA (or Sms) participates in recombinational repair, a process that uses an undamaged DNA strand in one DNA duplex to fill a gap in a homologous DNA strand in a sister DNA duplex. In a prior report, we described the production of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) specific for RadA.