Specificity of spontaneous and t-butyl hydroperoxide-induced mutations in ΔoxyR strains of Escherichia coli differing with respect to the SOS mutagenesis proficiency and to the MutY and MutM functions

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 354, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 95-101

  Urios, Amparo ^a   Blanco, Manuel ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN PRÍNCIPE FELIPE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Base substitution; MutM(Fpg); MutY; Oxidative mutagenesis; OxyR; SOS mutagenesis; t Butyl hydroperoxide

Indexed keywords

TERT BUTYL HYDROPEROXIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOS CHROMOTEST; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0002161574     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0027-5107(96)00043-7     Document Type: Article

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