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DL-p-chlorophenylalanine (PCPA) and its derivatives were evaluated for genotoxic effects using Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis strains lacking various DNA-repair mechanisms in spottest and in suspension test. The mutagenic activity of studied compounds was determined by the Ames test. Reverse mutation test was performed with Salmonella typhimurium strains TA98, TA100, TA1535 and TA1537 without S9 mix. 0.02 M nitrosomethylurea (NMU) standard mutagen was used as a positive control. The results showed that the parent nonessential amino acid PCPA had no detectable genotoxic and mutagenic activities in bacteria. The methyl ester of this amino acid and its N-phenylacetyl derivative possessed weak genotoxicity. Meanwhile N-sec-butyloxycarbonyl, N-benzyloxycarbonyl, N-(p-nitrophenylacetyl) and N-(p-nitrophenoxyacetyl) derivatives of DL-p-chlorophenylalanine exhibited appreciable genotoxi- city. Among the seven tested compounds only N-benzyloxycarbonyl and N-(p-nitrophenoxyacetyl) derivatives of DL-p-chlorophenylalanine have been found to be mutagenic. Only parent PCPA possessed antimutagenic properties in respect of nitrosomethylurea. The structural modification, which strongly affects genotoxicity and mutagenicity perhaps may be due to steric hydrance of the substituents, causing interference with enzyme and DNA interactions.

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