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Mutational specificities of environmental carcinogens in the lacl gene of Escherichia coli. III: The cyclic nitrosamine N ‐nitrosopyrrolidine is a complex mutagen
Author(s) -
Zielenska Maria,
Ahmed Alia,
Glickman Barry W.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
molecular carcinogenesis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.254
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1098-2744
pISSN - 0899-1987
DOI - 10.1002/mc.2940030304
Subject(s) - biology , frameshift mutation , mutagen , escherichia coli , genetics , carcinogen , gene , mutation , nitrosamine , enterobacteriaceae , guanine , gene duplication , nucleotide
The mutational specificity of the cyclic nitrosamine N ‐nitrosopyrrolidine (NPYR) was determined through the DNA sequence characterization of 33 lacl −d mutations of Escherichia coli. Base substitution was the predominant class of mutation induced (91%). The majority of these (64%) occurred at GC base pairs, in accordance with the predicted significance of NPYR‐derived guanine adducts. In addition, this nitrosamine efficiently produced other kinds of base substitution events as 11 of the 33 mutations occurred at AT base pairs. Deletion, frameshift, and duplication events were also recovered. The complexity of the NPYR mutational spectrum appears to be consistent with the suggestion that this compound acts through both direct and indirect mutational pathways.