Azo reduction of trypan blue to a known carcinogen by a cell-free extract of a human intestinal anaerobe.

Autor: Hartman CP, Fulk GE, Andrews AW
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Mutation research [Mutat Res] 1978 Nov; Vol. 58 (2-3), pp. 125-32.
DOI: 10.1016/0165-1218(78)90001-0
Abstrakt: The azo reductase activity of a cell-free extract of Fusobacterium sp. 2 is characterized using trypan blue as a substrate. Either chemical reduction of this dye with sodium hydrosulfite or reduction by the cell-free extract produces a mutagenic product, o-tolidine. The o-tolidine is mutagenic in the Ames Salmonella/mammalian-microsome mutagenicity test when activated by a rat liver S9 preparation.
Databáze: MEDLINE