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Detection and chemical identification of natural bio-antimutagens. A case of the green tea factor
Mutation Research
|June 1, 1985
Abstract:
A bio-antimutagen, isolated from Japanese green tea (leaves of Camellia sinensis), reduced high spontaneous mutations due to altered DNA-polymerase III in a mutator strain of Bacillus subtilis. Chemical studies showed that the factor was epigallo-catechin-gallate (EGCg).