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. 1993 Oct;101(Suppl 3):207–212. doi: 10.1289/ehp.93101s3207

Molecular analysis of mutations induced at the hisD3052 allele of Salmonella by single chemicals and complex mixtures.

D M DeMarini 1, D A Bell 1, J G Levine 1, M L Shelton 1, A Abu-Shakra 1
PMCID: PMC1521146  PMID: 8143618

Abstract

More single chemicals and complex environmental mixtures have been evaluated for mutagenicity at the hisD3052 allele of Salmonella, primarily in strain TA98, than in any other mutation assay. The development of colony probe hybridization procedures and the application of the polymerase chain reaction and direct DNA sequencing has permitted rapid molecular access to this allele. We discuss these techniques and the resulting mutation spectra that have been induced by a variety of environmental mutagens and complex mixtures. A common GC or CG deletion within a hot-spot region of the sequence dominates most of the spectra. In addition to this two-base deletion, we have recovered about 200 other types of mutations within the 72-base target for reversion of the hisD3052 allele. These include a variety of deletions (as large as 35 bases), duplications (as large as 46 bases), and complex mutations involving base substitutions. The quasipalindromic nature of the target sequence and its potential to form DNA secondary structures and slippage mismatches appear to be an important basis for the mutability of this allele.

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