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MUTATION INDUCTION BY DIFUNCTIONAL ALKYLATING AGENTS IN NEUROSPORA CRASSA
Tong-Man Ong 1 and F. J. de Serres 1
1 Environmental Mutagenesis Branch, National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
The genetic characterization of ad-3 mutants of Neurospora crassa induced by two carcinogenic difunctional alkylating agents, 1,2,4,5-diepoxypentane (DEP) and 1,2,7,8-diepoxyoctane (DEO), has shown that point mutations at the ad-3B locus have similar complementation patterns. In addition to the induction of point mutations, DEP induces a low frequency (7.5%) of multilocus deletions, whereas DEO induces an extremely high frequency (42.0%). The distribution of the different classes of ad-3 mutants and the frequency of multilocus deletion mutants among DEP-induced mutants are not significantly different from those induced by the monofunctional alkylating agents EI, EMS and ICR-177 at comparable forward-mutation frequencies. Moreover, the frequencies of DEP-induced ad-3B mutants showing allelic completion or having nonpolarized complementation patterns are similar to those of ad-3B mutants induced by monofunctional agents. It is suggested, therefore, that the mechanism of mutation-induction by DEP in N. crassa is similar to that of monofunctional alkylating agents. Mutation-induction by DEO probably results both from the mechanism of action of monofunctional alkylating agents and from inter-strand cross-linkage of the DNA molecule by the two functional epoxy groups.
Submitted on December 4, 1974Revised on March 17, 1975
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