Overexpression of Ogt reduces MNU and ENU induced transition, but not transversion, mutations in E. coli

Mutation Research - DNA Repair

Volumn 487, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 51-58

  Beenken, K ^a   Cai, Z ^a   Fix, D ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkylguanine; Alkylthymine; Methyltransferase; Mutagenesis; Nitrosourea

Indexed keywords

ETHYLNITROSOUREA; GUANINE DERIVATIVE; METHYLATED DNA PROTEIN CYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLNITROSOUREA; THYMINE DERIVATIVE; TRANSFER RNA;

ALKYLATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPOSURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ALKYLATING AGENTS; ALKYLATION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; GENE EXPRESSION; METHYLNITROSOUREA; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MUTAGENESIS;

EID: 0035501226     PISSN: 09218777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8777(01)00102-1     Document Type: Article

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