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Biophysical Journal 8: 326-336 (1968)
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{gamma}-Irradiation of Thymine Dimers in Aqueous Solution

R. A. Deering and Wallace Snipes

ABSTRACT

Thymine dimers were irradiated in aqueous solution with 60Co {gamma}-rays in N2 or O2. Thymine and unidentified non-UV-absorbing products appeared. The thymine was identified by spectrophotometry, chromatography, and ability to support the growth of Escherichia coli 15 T-. Residual dimer was determined by a UV-reversibility assay. The G-values for dimer breakage were approximately equal in N2 and O2. At low {gamma}-doses, about two thymines were produced per dimer broken in N2, whereas only about one thymine appeared per dimer broken in O2. For dimer irradiated in frozen solution, the yield of thymine was at least 100 times less than in liquid.






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