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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Mutagenic Action of Phaseolinone, a Mycotoxin Isolated from Macrophomina phaseolina

Gautam Bhattacharya, Tarun K Dhar, F Kathleen Bhattacharya and Kazi A I Siddiqui

Australian Journal of Biological Sciences 40(4) 349 - 354
Published: 1987

Abstract

Phaseolinone was mutagenic to excision-repair-deficient strains of Escherichia coli WP2 and also to Salmonella typhimurium TA100. The repair test was indicative of covalent binding of the toxin to DNA. The side-chain epoxide and the hydroxy groups of the molecule were found to be essential for mutagenic activity.

https://doi.org/10.1071/BI9870349

© CSIRO 1987

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