Inactivation and repair of bacteriophage lambda by furfural.

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Inactivation and repair of bacteriophage lambda by furfural.

Biochemistry and molecular biology international - 1 Feb 1994

Khan Q A, Hadi S M

Abstract excerpt

Furfural is a dietary mutagen and is present in various frequently consumed food products. In earlier work we have shown that it induces single strand breaks in duplex DNA which occur preferentially in AT base pairs. Experiments on the conservation of EcoRI cleavage site in mutant plasmids furthe...

Topics

Bacteriophage lambda
DNA Damage
DNA Repair
DNA, Viral
Escherichia coli
Furaldehyde
Kinetics
Mutation
Plasmids

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