“…We mixed DNA (0.5 mg) and maltol (0.06, 0.13, 0.25, 0.5 and 1.0 mg) into 0.25 ml sodium phosphate buffer in each well of a 24-well multiplate (final concentrations of maltol were 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2 and 4 mg/ml), irradiated the mixture with UVA for 20 min, and then dialysed the reaction mixture against water. N-nitrosopyrrolidine (Sigma-Aldrich) dissolved in sodium phosphate buffer was used as a positive control (12,20). We treated the dialysed DNA with Nuclease P1 (5 unit, Seikagaku, Tokyo) in sodium acetate buffer (20 mM, pH 4.8) at 37 C for 2 h, and then by bacterial alkaline phosphatase (1 unit, Takara Bio Inc., Shiga, Japan) in Tris-HCl buffer (100 mM, pH 8.0) at 37 C for an additional 2 h (20).…”