Comparison of Salmonella typhimurium TA102 with Escherichia coli WP2 tester strains.

doi:10.1093/mutage/5.3.285

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Comparison of Salmonella typhimurium TA102 with Escherichia coli WP2 tester strains.

Mutagenesis - 1 May 1990

Wilcox P, Naidoo A, Wedd D J, Gatehouse D G

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In 1982, Levin et al. published a paper describing a new Salmonella typhimurium strain, TA102, for detecting mutagenic agents that react preferentially with AT base pairs. This strain has an AT base pair at the critical mutation site within the hisG gene, which is located on a multicopy plasmid,...

Topics

Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
Escherichia coli
Mutagenicity Tests
Mutagens
Mutation
Salmonella typhimurium

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