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Psoralen photomutagenic specificity in Salmonella typhimurium.

The cytotoxic and mutagenic specificity of two therapeutically employed psoralens was examined in several Ames Salmonella typhimurium strains with near ultraviolet light (UVA, 320-400 nm) activation. Photomutagenic activity of 8-methoxypsoralen (8MOP) and 4,5',8-trimethylpsoralen (TMP) was found to be sequence-specific, and additionally was dependent on the level of DNA-repair proficiency. Base-pair substitution photomutagenesis in hisG46 appeared to require plasmid pKM101-mediated "error-prone" repair. Frameshift photomutagenesis was observed in all hisC3076 strains but not in hisD3052 strains. Frameshift mutagenic activity in hisC3076 was enhanced in the absence of uvrB excision repair and increased further by plasmid pKM101. Phototoxicity was essentially identical in hisC3076, hisD3052 and hisG46 strains; uvrB- excision-repair-deficient bacteria were considerably more susceptible to lethal effects than wild-type parental strains, while the presence of pKM101 had no apparent effect on survival. Finally, the data show that psoralens are potent frameshift photomutagens in Salmonella hisC3076 strains and demonstrate the potential utility of these strains in evaluating photomutagenic and phototoxic activity of new furocoumarin derivatives.[1]

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