Development of new tester strains derived from E. coli WP2uvrA for the determination of mutational specificity

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 413, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 219-225

  Ohta, Toshihiro ^a   Watanabe Akanuma, Mie ^b   Tokishita, Sin Ichi ^a   Shiga, Yasuhiro ^a   Yamagata, Hideo ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemical mutagen; E.coli WP2uvrA; Mutational specificity; Transition; Transversion

Indexed keywords

4 NITROQUINOLINE 1 OXIDE; CHEMICAL MUTAGEN; FURYLFURAMIDE; MUTAGENIC AGENT; SODIUM AZIDE;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

4-NITROQUINOLINE-1-OXIDE; AZACITIDINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LAC OPERON; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; PLASMIDS; POINT MUTATION; SODIUM AZIDE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 17544396903     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(98)00006-0     Document Type: Article

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