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Exclusive induction of G:C to A:T transitions by 3-azido-1,2-propanediol in yeast.
Mutation research. Genetic toxicology and environmental mutagenesis - 15 Jan 2014
Grúz Petr, Sassa Akira, Hosoda Akemi, Yamagishi Hiroyuki, Usui Yukio, Shimizu Masatomi
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Sodium azide is a strong mutagen which has been successfully employed in mutation breeding of crop plants. In biological systems, it is metabolized to azidoalanine, but further bioactivation to a putative ultimate mutagen as well as the nature of the induced DNA modifications leading to mutations remain elusive. In this study, mutations induced in the CAN1 gene of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae by the...
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