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Further development of the beta-lactamase MutaGen assay and evaluation by comparison with Ames fluctuation tests and the umu test.
Environmental and molecular mutagenesis - 1 Aug 2005
Reifferscheid Georg, Arndt Christian, Schmid Claudia
Abstract excerpt
A rapid, high-throughput bacterial mutagenicity test system has been developed (MutaGen test) that detects reversions of inactivating base-pair substitutions and frameshifts in a TEM-1 class A beta-lactamase (ampicillinase) gene. To quickly and sensitively detect mutagens, the system utilises a series of plasmids that contain the mutated ampicillinase gene and the mucAB operon. Inactivating mutations in the...
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