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FREESE has shown in a series of papers1–3 that most mutants induced by 5-bromouracil or 5-bromodeoxy-uridine in bacteriophage T4 can be induced to back-mutate by these same base analogues. This important observation led him to propose as one type of mutation the substitution of a G-C pair in the DNA for an A-T pair by a mechanism that necessarily could work in reverse. We have carried out similar experiments in the course of a study of the mutagenic action of nucleotide base analogues in Salmonella typhimurium and the results are somewhat different from those obtained with the bacteriophage.
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DAWSON, G., McMAHON, P. Mutants of Salmonella typhimurium induced by 5-Bromodeoxyuridine. Nature 204, 1226–1227 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2041226a0
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