Deuterium-depletion has no significant impact on the mutation rate of Escherichia coli, deuterium abundance therefore has a probabilistic, not deterministic effect on spontaneous mutagenesis

• Walliyulahi Ajibola ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Walliyulahi Ajibola, Ildikó Karcagi

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliations Synthetic and Systems Biology Unit, Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre of the Eötvös Lóránd Research Network, Szeged, Hungary, Faculty of Science and Informatics, Doctoral School in Biology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

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• Ildikó Karcagi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Walliyulahi Ajibola, Ildikó Karcagi

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Synthetic and Systems Biology Unit, Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre of the Eötvös Lóránd Research Network, Szeged, Hungary

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• Gábor Somlyai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation HYD LLC for Cancer Research and Drug Development, Budapest, Hungary

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• Ildikó Somlyai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation HYD LLC for Cancer Research and Drug Development, Budapest, Hungary

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• Tamás Fehér

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: feher.tamas@brc.hu[

  Affiliation Synthetic and Systems Biology Unit, Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre of the Eötvös Lóránd Research Network, Szeged, Hungary

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9318-3640

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