Abstract
Salmonella typhimurium YG1021, YG1024, YG1026 and YG1029 are new derivatives of the Ames tester strains TA98 and TA100, with elevated ‘classical’ nitroreductase or acetyl-CoA: N-hydroxyarylamine O-acetyltransferase level. Thirty mutagens with different structures were tested using these strains and the sensitivities were compared with those of the conventional strains and of the enzyme-deficient strains. Elevated O-acetyltransferase activity of the indicator strains specifically increased their ability to detect the mutagenicity of aromatic nitro, amino and hydroxylamino compounds, whereas the strains with high nitroreductase activity were very sensitive to some nitroaromatics. The combined use of the isogenic tester strains with different metabolic capacities was quite useful to assess the intracellular metabolic activation and detoxification mechanisms of chemical mutagens.
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