ISOLATION AND PREVALIDATION OF AN ESCHERICHIA-COLI TESTER STRAIN FOR THE USE IN MECHANISTIC AND METABOLIC STUDIES OF GENOTOXINS

被引:11
作者
KRANENDONK, M [1 ]
RUAS, M [1 ]
LAIRES, A [1 ]
RUEFF, J [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV NOVA LISBOA, FAC SCI & TECHNOL, MONTE DE CAPARICA, PORTUGAL
来源
MUTATION RESEARCH | 1994年 / 312卷 / 02期
关键词
ESCHERICHIA-COLI; TESTER STRAIN;
D O I
10.1016/0165-1161(94)90014-0
中图分类号
Q3 [遗传学];
学科分类号
071007 ; 090102 ;
摘要
We have isolated an Escherichia coli tester strain for the use in mechanistic and metabolic studies of genotoxins. We started with one of the more used and better characterized E. coli K-12 laboratory strains, AB1157. We isolated a lipopolysaccharide defective mutant of strain AB1886 which is an excision repair deficient derivative of AB1157 and introduced a newly constructed plasmid pKR11, encoding mucAB, resulting in strain MR2101/pKR11. A genotoxicity assay was designed, monitoring the reversion to arginine prototrophy and a preliminary validation was carried out against Ames tester strain TA100 with a set of diagnostic compounds. The results seem to indicate that strain MR2101/pKR11 is an adequate tester strain which can be a useful tool in mechanistic studies. Moreover, this strain can serve as mother strain to isolate improved and more specialized tester strains.
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页码:99 / 109
页数:11
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