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  • Title: Mutagenic specificity of N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine in the gpt gene on a chromosome of Chinese hamster ovary cells and of Escherichia coli cells.
    Author: Sockett H, Romac S, Hutchinson F.
    Journal: Mol Gen Genet; 1991 Jun; 227(2):252-9. PubMed ID: 2062306.
    Abstract:
    DNA base sequence changes induced by N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) mutagenesis have been determined for the Escherichia coli gpt gene stably incorporated in a chromosome of Chinese hamster ovary cells and in the chromosome of both growing and starving E. coli cells, instead of on a plasmid as in most previous studies. In the three cases, nearly all mutations were G:C to A:T transitions, with a 2- to 4-fold higher mutation rate, compared to other sites, at guanines flanked on the 5' side by another guanine. Mutagenic hot spots in these experiments were less prominent than in published results for MNNG mutagenesis of gpt and of other genes. A suggested explanation involves repair of O6meG. At low levels of mutagenic products, most are repaired and even small differences in the repair rates leads to large differences in the relative amounts of residual O6meG at various sites; in contrast, at high levels of mutagenic products there is little effect of repair on the distribution.
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