Mutagenicity test system based on a reporter gene assay for short-term detection of mutagens (MutaGen assay)

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 535, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 55-72

  Schmid, Claudia ^a   Arndt, Christian ^b   Reifferscheid, Georg ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MERCK KGAA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lactamase; Ampicillin; MucAB; Mutagenicity assay; Reporter gene; Tetracycline

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; MUTAGENIC AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE INDUCTION; INCUBATION TIME; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGEN TESTING; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SCREENING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPICILLIN RESISTANCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENES, REPORTER; LAC OPERON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; MUTAGENS; PLASMIDS; POINT MUTATION; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0037419751     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(02)00282-6     Document Type: Article

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