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The Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology is downloaded weekly from EMBL-EBI at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/. The data is made available under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). For more information see: Degtyarenko et al. (2008) ChEBI: a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, D344–D350.

Term:intercalator
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Accession:CHEBI:24853 term browser browse the term
Definition:A role played by a chemical agent which exhibits the capability of occupying space between DNA base pairs due to particular properties in size, shape and charge. Intercalation of chemical compounds in DNA helix can result in replication errors (shift, mutation) or DNA damages.
Synonyms:related_synonym: agente intercalante;   intercalating agent;   intercalating agents;   intercalating ligands;   intercalators



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      biological role 0
        aetiopathogenetic role 0
          genotoxin 0
            mutagen 0
              intercalator 0
                3,6-diamino-10-methylacridinium chloride + 0
                3,6-diamino-10-methylacridinium chloride.HCl + 0
                3,6-diaminoacridine 0
                3,6-diaminoacridine dihydrochloride + 0
                3,6-diaminoacridine monohydrochloride + 0
                ICR-170 0
                acriflavinium chloride 0
                acriflavinium monochloride 0
                benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide I 0
                ethidium + 0
                ethidium bromide 0
                ethidium homodimer 0
                mitomycin + 0
                nogalamycin 0
                propidium + 0
                quinacrine mustard dihydrochloride 0
                saintopin 0
                steffimycin D 0
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