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The effect of folate deficiency on the hprt mutational spectrum in Chinese hamster ovary cells treated with monofunctional alkylating agents.
Mutation research - 30 Jun 1999
Branda R F, Lafayette A R, O'Neill J P, Nicklas J A
Abstract excerpt
Folic acid deficiency acts synergistically with alkylating agents to increase DNA strand breaks and mutant frequency at the hprt locus in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. To elucidate the mechanism of this synergy, molecular analyses of hprt mutants were performed. Recently, our laboratory showed that folate deficiency increased the percentage of clones with intragenic deletions after exposure to ethyl...
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- Alkylating Agents
- Animals
- Base Pairing
- CHO Cells
- Cricetinae
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- DNA Primers
