Abstract
Vinyl chloride and crotonaldehyde are known mutagens and carcinogens that, through their reaction with DNA, form specific deoxyguanosine adducts. To investigate the mutagenic potential of a subset of the possible deoxyguanosine lesions, site-specific adducts of vinyl chloride and crotonaldehyde were synthesized, inserted into a shuttle vector, and replicated in mammalian cells. Mutation yields of the DNA adducts of vinyl chloride and crotonaldehyde were found to be 2% and 5-6%, respectively, thus suggesting that these adducts could contribute to the overall genotoxicity and carcinogenicity associated with exposure to these chemicals.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 455-459 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis |
Volume | 45 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2005 |
Keywords
- Crotonaldehyde
- Mutogenicity
- Vinyl chloride
- α-Me-γ-HOPdG
- β-HOEdG
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Epidemiology
- Genetics(clinical)
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis