Chloramine mutagenesis in Bacillus subtilis.
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Chloramine (which occurs widely as a by-product of sanitary chlorination of water supplies) is shown to be a weak mutagen, when reversion of trpC to trpC in Bacillus subtilis is used as an assay. Some DNA-repair mutants appear to be more sensitive to chloramine, suggesting the involvement of DNA targets in bactericide. The influence of plating media on survival of cells treated with chloramine suggests a bacterial repair system acting upon potentially lethal lesions induced by chloramine.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Science
دوره 192 4244 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1976