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Conditions affecting the mutagenicity of sodium bisulfite in Salmonella typhimurium.

Sodium bisulfite is a weak mutagen at pH 5 and 6 in S. typhimurium strains carrying the hisG46 and hisD6610 mutations, but is not mutagenic in strains with the hisC3076 or hisD3052 mutations. The bisulfite-induced base-pair substitution mutations were slightly enhanced by the presence of the plasmid, pKM101, but inhibited by the presence of the uvrB and rfa mutations. The hisO1242 mutation which causes constitutive expression of the histidine operon, produced a slight enhancement of frameshift (hisD6610), but not base-pair substitution (hisG46) mutations. Bisulfite-induced mutations appear to be the result of two different mechanisms which may be a function of the repair capacity of the strains. The data suggest that the deamination of cytosine may not be responsible for frameshift mutations, but may be responsible for base-pair substitution mutagenesis. Because the rate of bisulfite autooxidation appears to play a role in the mutagenic process, we are suggesting that the deamination of cytosine may be the result of oxidative damage rather than through the direct formation of a cytosine-bisulfite adduct. This is further supported by the much lower concentrations of bisulfite needed to cause mutagenicity than the 1 M concentrations cited to produce cytosine-bisulfite adducts.[1]

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