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The genotoxic effect of N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) and furadantine (Fu) was significantly decreased by standard antimutagens (ascorbic acid, alpha-tocopherol, chlorophyllin and sodium selenite) in the unicellular flagellate Euglena gracilis. The effects of these compounds were verified also by a bacterial test in which three strains of Salmonella typhimurium, TA97, TA100, and TA102, were used. The above compounds were antimutagenic in strains of bacteria used, except for chlorophyllin which had no effect on strain TA102.
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- P Foltínová
- Institute of Molecular and Subcellular Biology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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Foltínová P, Grones J. Protective effect of ascorbic acid on bleaching activity of N-methyl-N′-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine and furazolidone. Folia Microbiol (Praha) 1993. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02814403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Krajcovic J, Chreno O, Ebringer L. Different effect of hyperthermia and heat shock on the action of quinolone drugs versus some mutagens against chloroplasts of Euglena gracilis. Mutat Res 1990; 244:21-5. [PMID: 2110622 DOI: 10.1016/0165-7992(90)90102-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Hyperthermia (37 degrees C permanently) and heat shock (42 degrees C for 10 min, and then 27 degrees C) retarded the elimination of chloroplasts from the flagellate Euglena gracilis induced by quinolone antibacterial chemotherapeutics (OA, NA, Cnx, Ofx, Cpfx, Enx, Nfx) in comparison with their action at 27 degrees C. In the case of OA, NA, and Cnx those hyperthermic conditions completely blocked their action against chloroplasts. On the other hand, both temperature regimes accelerated the antichloroplast activity of the mutagens/carcinogens nitrosoguanidine and furylfuramide.
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- J Krajcovic
- Institute of Molecular and Subcellular Biology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
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Ebringer L. Interaction of drugs with extranuclear genetic elements and its consequences. TERATOGENESIS, CARCINOGENESIS, AND MUTAGENESIS 1990; 10:477-501. [PMID: 1982911 DOI: 10.1002/tcm.1770100606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Bacterial ancestry of mitochondria and plastids is now generally accepted. Both organelles contain their own DNA and transcription-translation apparatus of a prokaryotic type. Due to this fact these systems carry bacteria-like properties. Thus organellar DNA and ribosomes are essentially different from nuclear DNA and cytoplasmic ribosomes in physical as well as in functional respects. Due to the bacterial character of both types of organelles they are susceptible to various antibacterial chemicals. Inhibitors of bacterial protein synthesis inhibit mitochondrial (plastidial) biogenesis. Therefore the cellular content of mitochondria (plastids)-made proteins decreases during cytoplasmic turnover or cell division in the presence of these drugs. Such drug activity consequently leads to a reduced capacity for oxidative phosphorylation or photosynthesis. Organellar genomes are less stable and more sensitive to mutagenesis as compared to nuclear genome. It means also that genotoxic agents induce various disorders of mitochondrial (plastidial) functions. Impairments in the respiratory chain are associated with structural as well as functional abnormalities of mitochondria. These are clinically expressed mostly in tissues with a high demand for ATP: brain, heart, skeletal muscle, and retina. On the other hand, some antibacterial inhibitors of mitochondrial biogenesis (e.g., tetracyclines) inhibit selectively tumor cell proliferation. Therefore they may be considered for use in anticancer therapy. The article summarizes the response of mitochondria and plastids in various organisms to drugs and environmental xenobiotics. Various model organisms suitable for detection of xenobiotic effect on mitochondria (plastids) are presented as well as the possible consequences of such interaction.
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- L Ebringer
- Institute of Molecular and Subcellular Biology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
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Krajcovic J, Ebringer L, Polónyi J. Quinolones and coumarins eliminate chloroplasts from Euglena gracilis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1989; 33:1883-9. [PMID: 2558612 PMCID: PMC172782 DOI: 10.1128/aac.33.11.1883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Quinolones and coumarins were potent eliminators of chloroplasts from Euglena gracilis. There was a remarkable similarity between antichloroplastic and antibacterial activities of DNA gyrase inhibitors. Quinolones produced 100% chloroplast-free cells in concentrations which do not affect cell viability. Optimal conditions were exponential growth, continuous illumination, and neutral or slightly alkaline pH. Coumarins were more toxic than quinolones. Among the quinolones, ofloxacin was the most potent in eliminating chloroplasts. Among the coumarins, coumermycin A1 was the most potent. New quinolones and coumermycin A1 were able to induce the complete inability of originally green cells to form green colonies after 24 h of drug exposure, while clorobiocin and novobiocin required several days of exposure. Darkness, heat shock (42 degrees C, 10 min), or simultaneous treatment with chloramphenicol or rifampin decreased the potency of DNA gyrase inhibitors for producing chloroplast-free cells. Remarkably, in cells in which division was blocked by three different methods (resting medium, hyperthermic conditions [37 degrees C], or addition of cycloheximide), new quinolones and coumermycin A1 nevertheless eliminated chloroplasts. The antichloroplastic activity of DNA gyrase inhibitors is additional data suggesting an evolutionary relationship between chloroplasts and eubacteria.
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- J Krajcovic
- Institute of Molecular and Subcellular Biology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
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Streptomycin and N-Methyl-N’-nitro-N-nitroso-guanidine inhibit incorporation of14C-precursors of macromolecule synthesis inEuglena gracillis. Folia Microbiol (Praha) 1988. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02925773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Macor M, Ebringer L. Effect of elevated temperature on genotoxicity of chemotherapeuticals toward Euglena gracilis. Folia Microbiol (Praha) 1988; 33:314-22. [PMID: 3141254 DOI: 10.1007/bf02925627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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A collection of 20 compounds was tested for their ability to induce a permanent loss of chloroplasts from Euglena gracilis cells under conditions increasing the sensitivity of the flagellate to genotoxic compounds, viz. in the resting medium and at an elevated temperature. Streptomycin, dihydrostreptomycin, gentamicin, kanamycin and partially chloramphenicol exhibited mutagenic effects. Eight antibiotics eliminated chloroplasts only from growing cultures and seven antibiotics did not induce the mutation at all.
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- M Macor
- Institute of Molecular and Subcellular Biology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
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Chreno O, Krajcovic J, Ebringer L, Polónyi J. Effect of heat shock on the mutagenicity of mutagens and carcinogens in Euglena gracilis. TERATOGENESIS, CARCINOGENESIS, AND MUTAGENESIS 1988; 8:161-8. [PMID: 2905082 DOI: 10.1002/tcm.1770080305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The effect of heat-shock treatment (42 degrees C for 15 min) on the ability of four mutagens and carcinogens to induce hereditary bleaching in Euglena gracilis cells was investigated. All four mutagens (treatment time: 1-24 h) tested after heat shock increased the frequency of bleached mutants of Euglena gracilis.
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- O Chreno
- Institute of Molecular and Subcellular Biology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
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Konícek J, Konícková-Radochová M, Daraselia GY, Slosárek M. Mycobacteria in the light of modern genetics development. Folia Microbiol (Praha) 1988; 33:71-9. [PMID: 3283004 DOI: 10.1007/bf02928018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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It is generally assumed that genetic research of mycobacteria is delayed as compared with other, more commonly used, bacterial models, particularly in the field of genetic transfers. In the field of mutagenesis the problems have been studied to such an extent that replication maps of the chromosome of M. phlei and M. tuberculosis H37 Rv have already been constructed and a new model of the cell cycle of bacteria exhibiting a slow growth rate has been worked out. When the problems of mycobacterial genetics are looked upon in the light of gene manipulations it may be concluded that mycobacteria belong to a few models whose genes are used for cloning and that problems of practical significance will be studied by means of the most modern approaches.
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- J Konícek
- Institute of Microbiology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague
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Siekel P, Mačor M, Ebringer L, Guller L. Hereditary bleaching ofEuglena gracilis affected by 3-(5-nitro-2-furyl)acrylic acid. Folia Microbiol (Praha) 1987. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02877256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Mačor M, Ebringer L. Influence onEuglena gracilis of three types of inhibitors. Folia Microbiol (Praha) 1987. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02877255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Foltínová P, Ebringer L, Sutoris V, Zahradník P, Halgas J. Benzothiazolium salts--relationships between their structure, toxicity and effect on the plastid system of Euglena gracilis. Folia Microbiol (Praha) 1986; 31:319-28. [PMID: 3095207 DOI: 10.1007/bf02926958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The effects of 41 benzothiazolium salts on Euglena gracilis were characterized with regard to the influence on growth and on chlorophyll synthesis, and to their ability to induce permanent loss of chloroplasts. Some salts induced white mutants of E. gracilis (the first benzothiazole derivatives with this activity). The relationship between the biological effect and chemical structure was confirmed and expressed quantitatively by means of Free - Wilson and Fujita - Ban analysis.
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Ebringer L, Krajčovič J. Are chloroplasts and mitochondria the remnants of prokaryotic endosymbionts? Folia Microbiol (Praha) 1986. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02928005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Macor M, Ebringer L, Siekel P. Hyperthermia and other factors increasing sensitivity of Euglena to mutagens and carcinogens. TERATOGENESIS, CARCINOGENESIS, AND MUTAGENESIS 1985; 5:329-37. [PMID: 2867615 DOI: 10.1002/tcm.1770050503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The effects of different factors (temperature, light, enzymic activation) on the ability of selected mutagens and carcinogens to induce hereditary bleaching of Euglena gracilis were investigated. In the resting medium, the elevation of incubation temperature from 25 degrees C to 37 degrees C increased significantly the effect of all compounds tested on the frequency of bleached mutants of E. gracilis. The effect of light is not so unambiguous. While nitrosoguanidine (NG) exhibited practically the same bleaching activity both in the light and dark, the mutagenic effect of sodium azide (SA), nitrovin (NV), nitrosoethylurea (NEU), and benzo(a)pyrene (BP) was decreased in light. On the other hand, the light increased the bleaching activity of 5-nitro-2-furylacrylic acid (NFAA) significantly. The activation mixture S9 increased bleaching effect of NFAA and BP, whereas other mutagens were partially (NG and SA) or completely (NV and NEU) inactivated.
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Konícek J, Daraselia GY, Konícková-Radochová M. Mutagenic effect of n-methyl-N-nitrosourea on Mycobacterium phlei. Folia Microbiol (Praha) 1981; 26:62-4. [PMID: 7203289 DOI: 10.1007/bf02927225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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N-Methyl-N-nitrosourea was used to induce auxotrophic, scotochromogenic and isonicotinic acid hydrazide resistant mutants in Mycobacterium phlei and its effect was compared with that of nitrosoguanidine. Seventeen auxotrophic mutants requiring amino acids or vitamins and 52 scotochromogenic mutants with orange colonies were induced. The frequency of isonicotinic acid hydrazide-resistant mutants increased by two orders of magnitude.
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Ong T, de Serres FJ. Genetic analysis of ad-3 mutants induced by AF-2 and two other nitrofurans in Neurospora crassa. ENVIRONMENTAL MUTAGENESIS 1981; 3:151-8. [PMID: 6165577 DOI: 10.1002/em.2860030206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Our previous studies have shown that the nitrofurans AF-2, SQ18506, and FANFT are potent mutagens in Neurospora crassa. The genetic damage produced by these chemicals at the ad-3 region in N crassa has been characterized by a series of genetic tests. The results of these tests indicate that all three agents induce a high frequency of point mutations and probably a low frequency of multilocus deletions. A comparison of the complementation patterns among the AF-2--induced ad-3B mutants and those induced by other chemical agents indicates that the spectra of intragenic alterations induced by AF-2 in N crassa are similar to those induced by monofunctional alkylating agents.
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Sturdík E, Drobnica L, Baláz S, Marko V. Reaction of vinylfurans with sulfhydryl and amino groups. Biochem Pharmacol 1979; 28:2525-30. [PMID: 508368 DOI: 10.1016/0006-2952(79)90020-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Parthier B, Neumann D. Structural and Functional Analysis of Some Plastid Mutants of Euglena gracilis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1977. [DOI: 10.1016/s0015-3796(17)30349-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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