The VITOTOX® test, an SOS bioluminescence Salmonella typhimurium test to measure genotoxicity kinetics

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 389, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 279-290

  Van Der Lelie, Daniël ^a   Regniers, Luc ^a   Borremans, Brigitte ^a   Provoost, Ann ^a   Verschaeve, Luc ^a  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ames test; Mutagenicity testing; recN; SOS chromotest; SOS response; VITOTOX test

Indexed keywords

2 FLUORENYLAMINE; 4 NITROQUINOLINE 1 OXIDE; 6 CHLORO 9 [3 (2 CHLOROETHYL)AMINOPROPYLAMINO] 2 METHOXYACRIDINE; BENZO[A]PYRENE; CHRYSENE; FLUORENONE DERIVATIVE; MESYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; MUTAGENIC AGENT; NOVOBIOCIN; POTASSIUM CHROMATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; LEXA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; PRIMER DNA; RECN PROTEIN, BACTERIA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; SERINE PROTEINASE;

AMES TEST; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTOXICITY; MUTAGEN TESTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SOS CHROMOTEST; BINDING SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LUMINESCENCE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; MUTAGENS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS);

EID: 0030989340     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(96)00158-1     Document Type: Article

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