Abstract

Caffeine is shown to reversibly inhibit liquid-holding repair of ultraviolet damage causing delay of budding in yeast cells. Subsequent photoreactivation results in considerable reduction of the budding delay, suggesting that the effect of the caffeine is to interfere with excision of pyrimidine dimers.

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