Mutational specificity of 1-(2-chloroethyl]-3-cyclohexyl)-nitrosourea in Escherichia coli: Comparison of in vivo with in vitro exposure of the supF gene

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 65-71

  Luque Romero, Francisco L ^a   Iannone, Raffaella ^b   Inga, Alberto ^b   Fronza, Gilberto ^b   Pueyo, Carmen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

CCNU; In vivo mutagenesis; Mutation spectrum; supF

Indexed keywords

LOMUSTINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, SUPPRESSOR; LOMUSTINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENS; PLASMIDS; RNA, TRANSFER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030871390     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2280(1997)30:1<65::AID-EM9>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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