Abstract
Low molecular weight alkylating carcinogens, such as nitroso compounds, alkylate guanine of DNA to 7-alkylguanine, but the amount of this product correlates poorly with tumour induction. Loveless postulated that a minor product of alkylation, O-(6)-alkylguanine, may be responsible for mutagenesis and carcinogenesis. He showed that methyl methanesulphonate (MMS) does not produce O-(6)-methylguanine from deoxyguanosine, and in the present study it failed to induce thymic lymphomas or pulmonary adenomas in inbred Swiss mice. Loveless gave evidence that ethyl methanesulphonate (EMS), methylnitrosourea (MNU) and ethylnitrosourea (ENU) did produce O-(6)-alkylguanine, and all three induced pulmonary adenomas in the present study. It has also been shown that both of the alkylnitrosoureas induced thymic lymphomas but ethyl methanesulphonate did not.
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