Published 1980 | Version v1
Book

The cascade of 'SOS' events

  • 1. Institut Rudjer Boskovic, Zagreb (Yugoslavia)
  • 2. Faculty of Natural Sciences, Pristina, Yugoslavia

Description

The authors have studied the cascade of 'SOS' events induced in UV-irradiated Escherichia coli cells. All these events require the functional gene recA and proceed in a sequential and orderly way. In addition to some well-known 'SOS' processes, they show that the following post-UV events are also dependent on the gene recA: (i) inhibition of DNA synthesis; (ii) induction of the controlled DNA breakdown; and (iii) induction of cell death (measured as loss of the biological activity of the bacterial DNA). (Auth.)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
Elsevier.
Imprint Place
Amsterdam, Netherlands
ISBN
0-444-80241-X
Imprint Title
Progress in environmental mutagenesis
Imprint Pagination
347 p.
Journal Volume
7
Series
Developments in toxicology and environmental science.
Journal Page Range
p. 141-152.

Conference

Title
9. Annual meeting of the European Environmental Mutagen Society.
Dates
30 Sep - 5 Oct 1979.
Place
Tucepi, Yugoslavia.

Optional Information

Notes
Imprint:Includes author and subject indexes.