Prescott's Microbiology
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 41.3, Problem 3RIA
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Aflatoxins are ringed and planar compounds. They intercalate between strands of deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA), causing cancer due to the frameshift mutation. Liver is the main site for these reactions where aflatoxins form unstable derivatives.
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