title: Carcinogenic optical rotation.
abstract: It is suggested that viral nucleic acid inserts in vulnerable regions of host cell DNA contribute to cell transformation by introducing 43 degrees of optical rotation at 425 nm, and that a carcinogenic event caused by DNA inserts and adducts is spurious electron ejection from important adenine molecules that may be far from insert/adduct sites.
authors.forename: D T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Schiff
mesh_terms: D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic; D002472:Cell Transformation, Viral; D004279:DNA, Viral; D008954:Models, Biological; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence; D013053:Spectrophotometry
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral