Mutational spectra induced under distinct excision repair conditions by the 3 methylating agents N-methyl-N-nitrosourea, N-methyl-N′-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine and N-nitrosodimethylamine in postmeiotic male germ cells of Drosophila

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 352, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 97-115

  Nivard, Madeleine J M ^a   Pastink, Albert ^a   Vogel, Ekkehart W ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Apurine site; Hypermutability; Methyltransferase; Monofunctional alkylating agent; Nucleotide excision repair

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYLNITROSAMINE; DNA FRAGMENT; METHYLNITRONITROSOGUANIDINE; METHYLNITROSOUREA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ADDUCT; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GERM CELL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ALKYLATING AGENTS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DIMETHYLNITROSAMINE; DNA REPAIR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; GENES, LETHAL; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; METHYLNITRONITROSOGUANIDINE; METHYLNITROSOUREA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENS; SPERMATOZOA; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0029898320     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0027-5107(96)00011-5     Document Type: Article

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