Szilágyi I, Vitális S
Acta Microbiol Acad Sci Hung. 1978;25(4):285-9.
Sodium nitroprusside and its adenine complex were found to decrease the growth rate of exponentially growing Escherichia coli cultures, and the adenine complex to exert in addition a bactericidal effect. In mutation experiments the latter compound failed to induce base-pair substitutions in the E. coli strains tested but the results do not allow to exclude other mutagenic mechanisms.
