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Actinomycin D as an Epimutagen in Protists

Publication date: 13.12.2017

Acta Protozoologica, 2017, Volume 56, Issue 3, pp. 139 - 147

https://doi.org/10.4467/16890027AP.17.012.7493

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Zoya I. Uspenskaya
Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Alexander L. Yudin
Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Actinomycin D as an Epimutagen in Protists

Abstract

A previously unrecorded property of actinomycin D, a well-known antibiotic, was discovered in the course of long-term genetic research on the amoeba Amoeba proteus and the ciliate Dileptus anser. In these protists actinomycin D can induce an unusual type of hereditary variation, which we refer to as the inheritable destabilization of characters. A number of features indicate that this variation is epigenetic, that is, not caused by mutations in the DNA. Therefore, actinomycin D may be considered as an inducer of epigenetic inheritable changes, in other words, as an epimutagen.

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Information: Acta Protozoologica, 2017, Volume 56, Issue 3, pp. 139 - 147

Article type: Original article

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Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

Published at: 13.12.2017

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