date:Feb 22, 2019
chool of Public Health assistant professor, and Peter Villalta, mass spectrometry services coordinator at Masonic Cancer Center. Support was provided by the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute. The method uses mass spectrometry to study how toxins interact with DNA.
They used the technique to identify a specific modification in DNA in animal cells exposed to colibactin, a toxin produced by a specific strain of E. coli bacteria. Altering or damaging DNA can lead to ce