van der Schans G P, van der Drift A C
Int J Radiat Biol Relat Stud Phys Chem Med. 1975 May;27(5):437-46. doi: 10.1080/09553007514550431.
Bacteriophage T7 was irradiated in a protecting medium under nitrogen and oxygen with 60Co gamma-rays. Double-strand breaks were measured by sucrose-gradient sedimentation and by boundary-sedimentation analysis. Both methods showed that the presence of oxygen during irradiation enhanced the production of double-strand breaks. This is at variance with a recent report which suggests that boundary-sedimentation analysis does not show an effect of oxygen. The discrepancy must be ascribed to differences in interpretation of the sedimentation data.