A quantum chemical study of reactions of DNA bases with sulphur mustard: a chemical warfare agent

PK Shukla, PC Mishra - Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, 2010 - Springer
… Reactions of the sulphonium ion of sulphur mustard (SM +1 ) at the N7, … DNA bases and
shows that SM +1 would form stable adducts at the endocyclic nitrogen sites of the DNA bases, …

DNA damage responses in cells exposed to sulphur mustard

PA Jowsey, FM Williams, PG Blain - Toxicology letters, 2012 - Elsevier
… (HR) DNA repair pathway promotes cell survival after SM. This study investigated the role
of other DNA repair pathways in the cellular response to SM, specifically base excision repair (…

DNA fragmentation pattern induced in thymocytes by sulphur mustard

S Michaelson - Chemico-Biological Interactions, 2000 - Elsevier
Sulphur mustard (HD) is a blister agent for which no specific … This study examined DNA
damage in thymocytes exposed to a … The sulphur mustard used in this study was synthesised and …

Effect of sulphur mustard on the initiation and elongation of transcription

A Masta, PJ Gray, DR Phillips - Carcinogenesis, 1996 - academic.oup.com
… of alkylation by sulphur mustard of a DNA fragment containing … We demonstrate that sulphur
mustard alkylation of the DNA … appear to involve an intervening base pair between the two …

Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA damage induced by sulphur mustard in keratinocytes

S Shahin, C Cullinane, PJ Gray - Chemico-biological interactions, 2001 - Elsevier
… The differences may be explained in part by the differences in base composition between …
interactions to reactions involving the nitrogen mustard aziridinium cation. SM reacts with …

DNA damage in internal organs after cutaneous exposure to sulphur mustard

M Batal, I Boudry, S Mouret, C Cléry-Barraud… - Toxicology and applied …, 2014 - Elsevier
Sulphur mustard (SM) is a chemical warfare agent that attacks … DNA represents one of the
most critical molecular targets of … are expressed as the number of adduct per million bases. …

Relative yields of monomeric and dimeric adducts induced by sulphur mustard in isolated and cellular DNA as determined by HPLC/tandem mass spectrometry

M Batal, I Boudry, C Cléry-Barraud… - Toxicological & …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
… Quantitative release of DNA lesions is a requisite to any type of chromatographic detection
of DNA base damage. As previously emphasized (Boysen et al. Citation2009), this has been …

[PDF][PDF] Chemistry and toxicology of sulphur mustard-a review

RC Malhotra, K Ganesan, K Sugendran… - Defence Science …, 1999 - rageuniversity.org
… Bis(2-chlomthyl) sulphi& commonly known as sulphur mustard (SM) is highly reactive … the
principal target organs and the &oxyribose nucleic acid (DNA) is the most important molecular …

DNA damage, signalling and repair after exposure of cells to the sulphur mustard analogue 2-chloroethyl ethyl sulphide

PA Jowsey, FM Williams, PG Blain - Toxicology, 2009 - Elsevier
… Using both model human lymphoblastoid cell lines and pharmacological inhibitors, it was
found that DNA damage induced by CEES was repaired by base excision repair (BER) and …

An evidence-based review of the genotoxic and reproductive effects of sulfur mustard

F Khan, K Niaz, F Ismail Hassan, M Abdollahi - Archives of toxicology, 2017 - Springer
mustard (SM) is a chemical warfare agent which is cytotoxic in nature, and at the molecular
level, SM acts as DNA … by changing the pattern of nucleotides bases or through breaking the …