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recA-independent mutagenicity induced by chloroethylene oxide in E. coli.
Mutation research - 1 Jan 2000
Barbin A, Tenenbaum L, Toman Z, Radman M, Bartsch H
Abstract excerpt
The mechanism of mutagenicity of chloroethylene oxide (CEO), an ultimate carcinogenic metabolite of vinyl chloride, was investigated in 3 Escherichia coli strains (E. coli "multitest"). In this system, the mutagenicity of CEO was found to be mainly SOS-independent. CEO did not induce recombinational events at a detection level of about 10(-2) recombinants/survivor. Our results indicate that CEO- (or vinyl...
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