title: Radiation resistance: resurrection by recombination.
abstract: Adaptation to extreme desiccation has conferred extraordinary radiation resistance on the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans. How this organism is able to reconstruct a genome shattered by gamma rays has now been revealed.
authors.affiliation: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Division of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK. jes@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
authors.forename: Julian E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Sale
mesh_terms: D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D034301:Deinococcus / Q000378:metabolism / Q000528:radiation effects*; D005720:Gamma Rays; D016680:Genome, Bacterial / Q000528:radiation effects*; D011995:Recombination, Genetic
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial