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UVA induces C-->T transitions at methyl-CpG-associated dipyrimidine sites in mouse skin epidermis more frequently than UVB.
Mutagenesis - 1 Nov 2003
Ikehata Hironobu, Kudo Hirohito, Masuda Toshinari, Ono Tetsuya
Abstract excerpt
We studied the kinetics of mutation induction in skin epidermis and dermis of UVA-irradiated transgenic Muta mice and analyzed the sequence changes in 80 lacZ transgene mutants from the irradiated epidermis. The mutant frequency increased linearly in both the epidermis and dermis up to 240 kJ/m2 UVA, twice as efficiently in the epidermis as in the dermis, without provoking any inflammatory reactions in the...
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