PMID: 7035909Jan 1, 1982Paper

Assessment of the ability of 4CMB and 4HMB to induce primary genetic damage in strains of Escherichia coli

Mutation Research
K MayJ Bootman

Abstract

Studies were undertaken to investigate the ability of 4CMB and 4HMB to induce primary DNA damage in bacteria as shown by differential lethality in strains of E. coli proficient and deficient in DNA repair. It has been demonstrated in these laboratories that the assay system used will detect weak DNA-damaging agents by the use of a prolonged incubation period and, where appropriate, the inclusion of an S9 mix activating system. Both 4CMB and 4HMB induced primary DNA damage in E. coli, giving similar responses in the presence and absence of S9 mix. A comparison based on the response at the lowest inclusion level (250 microgram/ml) indicates that 4CMB was more active. 4CMB also caused greater lethality in a uvrA-, recA-, lexA- strain than in the other repair-deficient (uvrA-, polA-) strain employed. 4HMB was approximately equitoxic to both repair-deficient strains. It is suggested that this difference may be explained it both chemicals cause DNA lesions recognized by the uvrA system, and 4CMB causes additional lesions recognised or repaired by the recA or lexA systems.

Citations

Jan 18, 2006·Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology·Alain J Cozzone, Mansi El-Mansi

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