Escherichia coli xthA mutants are sensitive to inactivation by broad-spectrum near-UV (300- to 400-nm) radiation.
Logarithmically growing and stationary-phase cells of Escherichia coli mutants lacking exonuclease III (xthA) were sensitive to inactivation by broad-spectrum near-UV (300- to 400-nm) radiation. The same xthA mutants were no more sensitive to far-UV wavelengths (200- to 300-nm) than was a strain bearing a functional xthA allele.
D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics / Q000528:radiation effects*; D005090:Exodeoxyribonucleases / Q000235:genetics; D009154:Mutation; D013045:Species Specificity; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays
D005090:Exodeoxyribonucleases; C020133:exodeoxyribonuclease III