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Photobiological behavior of bacteria and phages supplemented with aza-analogues of nucleic acid bases

Abstract

The photochemical stability of anomalous nucleic acid bases of the azatype, 5-azacytosine (1), 5-azacytidine (II), 6-azacytosine (III), 6-azacytidine (IV), 6-azathymine (V), 6-azauracil (VI), and 8-aza-adenine (VII) to uv light of the wavelength 254 nm differs from the uv stability of the normal constituents. Changes of the uv inactivation of Escherichia coli K12 C600, E. coli B, Bacillus cereus, as well as E. coli phages lambda cb/sub 2/ and lambda b/sub 2/b/sub 5/ supplemented with azaderivatives prior to irradiation were investigated. It was found that I, II, III, IV, and VII are more, V and VI less sensitive to uv light compared with corresponding natural nucleic acid bases. Their changed uv sensitivities are reflected in the survival curves after uv irradiation in as far as azabases are incorporated into the nucleic acids in vivo. This explains the increase in uv sensitivity of E. coli K 12 C600, E. coli B, and B. cereus supplemented with I, II, III, IV, and VII and the decrease in uv sensitivity of Streptococcus faecalis supplemented with V (the latter information was taken from Gunther and Prusoff 1967). The lack of any significant influence of inactivation curves of E. coli K 12 C600 by V and  More>>
Publication Date:
Jan 01, 1975
Product Type:
Journal Article
Reference Number:
EDB-76-061543
Resource Relation:
Journal Name: Z. Allg. Mikrobiol.; (German Democratic Republic); Journal Volume: 15:5
Subject:
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; BACTERIA; RADIOSENSITIVITY; BACTERIOPHAGES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SURVIVAL CURVES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; MICROORGANISMS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PARASITES; RADIATIONS; VIRUSES; 560112* - Radiation Effects on Biochemicals- In Microorganisms- (-1987); 560131 - Radiation Effects on Microorganisms- Basic Studies- (-1987)
OSTI ID:
7187487
Research Organizations:
Forschungszentrum fuer Molekularbiologie und Medizin, Jena, Ger.
Country of Origin:
Germany
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: CODEN: ZAPOA
Submitting Site:
TIC
Size:
Pages: 323-331
Announcement Date:
Aug 01, 1976

Citation Formats

Kittler, L, Hradecna, Z, Jacob, H E, and Loeber, G. Photobiological behavior of bacteria and phages supplemented with aza-analogues of nucleic acid bases. Germany: N. p., 1975. Web. doi:10.1002/jobm.3630150504.
Kittler, L, Hradecna, Z, Jacob, H E, & Loeber, G. Photobiological behavior of bacteria and phages supplemented with aza-analogues of nucleic acid bases. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/jobm.3630150504
Kittler, L, Hradecna, Z, Jacob, H E, and Loeber, G. 1975. "Photobiological behavior of bacteria and phages supplemented with aza-analogues of nucleic acid bases." Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/jobm.3630150504.
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title = {Photobiological behavior of bacteria and phages supplemented with aza-analogues of nucleic acid bases}
author = {Kittler, L, Hradecna, Z, Jacob, H E, and Loeber, G}
abstractNote = {The photochemical stability of anomalous nucleic acid bases of the azatype, 5-azacytosine (1), 5-azacytidine (II), 6-azacytosine (III), 6-azacytidine (IV), 6-azathymine (V), 6-azauracil (VI), and 8-aza-adenine (VII) to uv light of the wavelength 254 nm differs from the uv stability of the normal constituents. Changes of the uv inactivation of Escherichia coli K12 C600, E. coli B, Bacillus cereus, as well as E. coli phages lambda cb/sub 2/ and lambda b/sub 2/b/sub 5/ supplemented with azaderivatives prior to irradiation were investigated. It was found that I, II, III, IV, and VII are more, V and VI less sensitive to uv light compared with corresponding natural nucleic acid bases. Their changed uv sensitivities are reflected in the survival curves after uv irradiation in as far as azabases are incorporated into the nucleic acids in vivo. This explains the increase in uv sensitivity of E. coli K 12 C600, E. coli B, and B. cereus supplemented with I, II, III, IV, and VII and the decrease in uv sensitivity of Streptococcus faecalis supplemented with V (the latter information was taken from Gunther and Prusoff 1967). The lack of any significant influence of inactivation curves of E. coli K 12 C600 by V and VI, and on E. coli phages lambda cb/sub 2/ and lambda c/sub 2/b/sub 5/ by II, is discussed in terms of too small incorporation rates. No discrimination was put forward with respect to DNA and RNA incorporation.}
doi = {10.1002/jobm.3630150504}
journal = []
volume = {15:5}
journal type = {AC}
place = {Germany}
year = {1975}
month = {Jan}
}