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Cellular determinants of the mutational specificity of 1-nitroso-6-nitropyrene and 1-nitroso-8-nitropyrene in the lacI gene of Escherichia coli.
Mutation research - 12 Dec 2001
Lambert I B, Carroll C, Laycock N, Koziarz J, Lawford I, Duval L, Turner G, Booth R, Douville S, Whiteway J, Nokhbeh M R
Abstract excerpt
We have characterized 202 lacI(-) mutations, and 158 dominant lacI(-d) mutations following treatment of Escherichia coli strains NR6112 and EE125 with 1-nitroso-6-nitropyrene (1,6-NONP), an activated metabolite of the carcinogen 1,6-dinitropyrene. In all, 91% of the induced point mutations occurred at G:C residues. The -(G:C) frameshifts were the dominant mutational class in the lacI(-) collections of both NR6112...
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