UV-A-MEDIATED ACTIVITY OF P-METHOXYMETHYLCINNAMATE

Authors
ASHWOODSMITH M STANLEY C TOWERS GHN WARRINGTON PJ
Citation
M. Ashwoodsmith et al., UV-A-MEDIATED ACTIVITY OF P-METHOXYMETHYLCINNAMATE, Photochemistry and photobiology, 57(5), 1993, pp. 814-818
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Biophysics,Biology
Journal title
Photochemistry and photobiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00318655
Volume
57
Issue
5
Year of publication
1993
Pages
814 - 818
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-8655(1993)57:5<814:UAOP>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
Methyl esters of hydroxycinnamic acids are photobiologically active. C is(Z) and trans(E) p-methoxymethylcinnamate photosensitize Escherichia coli and Chinese hamster ovary cells. They also produce sister chroma tid exchanges. Photosensitization is oxygen independent, and the cinna mates are not genetically active in the absence of light in the Ames S almonella typhimurium test.