Catabolite repressors are potent antimutagens in Escherichia coli plate incorporation assays: Experiments with glucose, glucose-6-phosphate and methyl-α-D-glucopyranoside

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 398, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 175-182

  Ambrose, M ^a   MacPhee, D G ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antimutagenesis; Catabolite repression; Glucose 6 phosphate; Methyl glucopyranoside; Spontaneous mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA METHYLGLUCOSIDE; ANTIMUTAGENIC AGENT; FREE RADICAL; GLUCOPYRANOSIDE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION;

ANTIMUTAGENIC AGENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE; METHYLGLUCOSIDES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032574315     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(97)00315-1     Document Type: Article

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