Rapid stop mutants & slow-stop mutants?

Question

These are some notes from my course:

>Examples of mutant phenotypes

Rapid-stop mutants:

-DNA polymerase III

-Helicase

-Primase

Slow stop mutants:

-Initiator

Whats the difference between rapid stop mutants & slow-stop mutants?

Answer 1

Not familiar with those terms (despite doing cell biology at degree level). However, it looks like rapid-stop mutants are ones which would die out rapidly as a consequence of the mutation, whereas slow-stop mutants might at least survive to an extent.