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Genetic engineering in Vivo using translocatable drug-resistance elements

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Nitropyrenes: Isolation, Identification, and Reduction of Mutagenic Impurities in Carbon Black and Toners

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The extraordinary mutagenicity of nitropyrenes in bacteria

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Evidence for the existence of a family of bacterial nitroreductases capable of activating nitrated polycyclics to mutagens

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