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. 1980 Sep;40(3):476–479. doi: 10.1128/aem.40.3.476-479.1980

Mutagenicity of islandicin and chrysophanol in the Salmonella/microsome system.

D F Liberman, F L Schaefer, R C Fink, M Ramgopal, A C Ghosh, R Mulcahy
PMCID: PMC291608  PMID: 6999990

Abstract

Chrysophanol and islandicin, two anthraquinones which are structurally related to emodin, were found to be frame-shift mutagens for Salmonella typhimurium strain TA 1537 after metabolic activation.

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