TY - JOUR T1 - COMPARISON OF HYCANTHONE ("ETRENOL"), SOME HYCANTHONE ANALOGS, MYXIN AND 4-NITROQUINOLINE-1-OXIDE AS FRAMESHIFT MUTAGENS JF - Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics JO - J Pharmacol Exp Ther SP - 390 LP - 398 VL - 186 IS - 3 AU - PHILIP E. HARTMAN AU - HILLARD BERGER AU - ZLATA HARTMAN Y1 - 1973/09/01 UR - http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/186/3/390.abstract N2 - Induction frequency of frameshift mutations in Salmonella typhimurium by hycanthone ("Etrenol") is strictly proportional to dose over a greater than 250-fold range. Treatment of sensitive bacteria for two hours at a hycanthone concentration of 0.1 µg/ml is sufficient to induce 10 detected and probably about 104 total mutations in 108 bacteria. Lucanthone (Miracil D), the methyl-substituted analog of hycanthone, is not mutagenic for Salmonella although both lucanthone and hycanthone inhibit bacterial growth at approximately equimolar amounts and are mutagenic for T4 phage. Of five thioxanthene analogs tested (the 6-chloro-substituted analog of lucanthone and IA-3 through IA-6), two hydroxymethyl-substituted derivatives (IA-4 and IA-6) are weakly mutagenic for Salmonella and two analogs (IA-4 and IA-5) are mutagens for T4 phage. Hycanthone, IA-4, IA-6 and two other agents (myxin, a fungistatic agent, and 4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide) in Salmonella cause frameshift mutations in repeating GGGG/CCCC sequences, in alternating GCGCGC/CGCGCG sequences or in both sets of sequences. 4-Nitroquinoline-1-oxide and probably also IA-6 weakly induce base-substitution mutations. © 1973 by The Williams & Wilkins Co. ER -