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Transcriptional slippage of p53 gene enhanced by cellular damage in rat liver: monitoring the slippage by a yeast functional assay.
Mutation research - 14 Feb 2000
Ba Y, Tonoki H, Tada M, Nakata D, Hamada J, Moriuchi T
Abstract excerpt
The Long-Evans Cinnamon (LEC) rat is a mutant strain characterized by abnormal copper metabolism and a high incidence of hepatitis and hepatoma. Using a yeast-based assay which scores mutants in p53 gene transcripts as red colonies, we detected frequent mutations in the liver of LEC rats. The majority (50-60%) of these were frameshift mutations caused by the insertion of an extra adenine (A) in the regions...
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