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Effects of caffeine on ultraviolet-induced base-pair substitution and frameshift mutagenesis in Salmonella.
Mutation research - 1 Jan 2000
MacPhee D G, Leyden M F
Abstract excerpt
Using an excision-deficient, di-auxotrophic, strain of Salmonella typhimurium we have shown that caffeine significantly inhibits the formation of ultraviolet-induced base-pair substitution mutations, but has only a marginal effect on the formation of frameshift mutations in the same population of cells.
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