Radiation resistance: resurrection by recombination.
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.
Sale
Julian E
JE
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Division of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK. jes@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D034301:Deinococcus / Q000378:metabolism / Q000528:radiation effects*; D005720:Gamma Rays; D016680:Genome, Bacterial / Q000528:radiation effects*; D011995:Recombination, Genetic
D004269:DNA, Bacterial