Differences in the mutational specificities of sunlight and UVB radiation suggest a role for transversion-inducing DNA damage in solar photocarcinogenesis

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 422, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 77-83

  Kunz, Bernard A ^a   Armstrong, John D ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mutational specificity; Sunlight; Transversions; UVB

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; EXCISION REPAIR; FUNGUS MUTATION; GENE MUTATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKIN CANCER; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; YEAST;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA DAMAGE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PLASMIDS; POINT MUTATION; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, TRANSFER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032501084     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(98)00177-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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