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Genetic change may be caused by interference with protein-protein interactions.
Mutation research - 1 Jan 2000
Zimmermann F K, Gröschel-Stewart U, Scheel I, Resnick M A
Abstract excerpt
Several aprotic polar solvents were shown to induce mitotic aneuploidy in yeast: diethyl ketone, gamma-valerolactone, pyridine, pivalinic acid nitrile, phenylacetonitrile and fumaric acid dinitrile. Only fumaric acid dinitrile also strongly induced other types of genetic effects including mitotic crossing-over, mitotic gene conversion and point mutation. The other substances only induced aneuploidy and this only...
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