Repair of extensive ionizing-radiation DNA damage at 95°C in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 4643-4645

  DiRuggiero, Jocelyne ^a   Santangelo, Nick ^a   Nackerdien, Zeena ^b   Ravel, Jacques ^a   Robb, Frank T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; GAMMA IRRADIATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IONIZING RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS;

EID: 0030746348     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.14.4643-4645.1997     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. American Public Health Association. 1972. Methods for the examination of water and wastewater, 14th ed. American Public Health Association, Washington, D.C.
2. Borges, K. M., S. R. Brummet, A. P. Bogert, M. C. Davis, K. M. Hujer, S. T. Domke, J. Szasz, J. Ravel, J. DiRuggiero, C. Fuller, J. W. Chase, and F. T. Robb. 1996. A survey of the genome of the hyperthermophilic archaeon, Pyrococcus furiosus. Genome Sci. Technol. 1:37-46.
3. Bouyoub, A., G. Barbier, J. Querellou, and P. Forterre. 1996. A putative SOS repair gene (dinF-like) in a hyperthermophilic archaeon. Gene 167:147-149.
4. Bult, C. J., O. While, G. J. Olson, L. Zhou, R. D. Fleishmann, G. G. Sutton, J. A. Blake, L. M. Fitzgerald, R. A. Clayton, J. D. Gocayne, et al. 1996. Complete genome sequence of the methanogenic archaeon. Methanococcus jannaschii. Science 273:1058-1073,
5. Chartier, F., B. Laine, and P. Sautiere. 1988. Characterization of the chromosomal protein MC1 from the thermophilic archaebacterium Methanosarcina sp. CHT155 and its effect on the thermal stability of DNA. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 951:149-156.
6. Daly, M. J., and K. W. Minton. 1996. An alternative pathway of recombination of chromosomal fragments precedes recA-dependent recombination in the radioresistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans. J. Bacteriol. 178: 4461-1471.
7. Daly, M. J., L. Ouyang, P. Fuchs, and K. W. Minton. 1994. In vivo damage and recA-dependent repair of plasmid and chromosomal DNA in the radiation-resistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans. J. Bacteriol. 176:3508-3517.
8. Daly, M. J., and K. W. Minton. 1995. Interchromosomal recombination in the extremely radioresistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans. J. Bacteriol. 177:5495-5505.
9. DiRuggiero, J. Unpublished data.
10. Friedberg, E. C., G. C. Walker, and W. Siede. 1995. DNA repair and mutagenesis. ASM Press. Washington, D.C.
11. Grogan, D. W. 1996. Exchange of genetic markers at extremely high temperatures in the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. J. Bacteriol. 178:3207-3211.
12. Herbert, R. A. 1990. Methods for enumerating microorganisms and determining biomass in natural environments. Methods Microbiol. 22:1-40.
13. Isabelle, V., J. Franchet-Beuzit, R. Sabattier, B. Laine, M. Spotheim-Maurizot, and M. Charlier. 1993. Radioprotection of DNA by a DNA-binding protein: MC1 chromosomal protein from the archaebacterium Methanosarcina sp. CHT155. Int. J. Radiat. Biol. 63:749-758.
14. Keller, L. C., and R. B. Maxcy. 1984. Effect of physiological age on the radiation resistance of some bacteria that are highly radiation resistant. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 47:915-918.
15. Kopylov, V. M., E. A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya, V. A. Svetlichnyi, M. L. Miroshnichenku, and V. S. Skobkin. 1993. γ-Irradiation resistance and UV-sensitivity of extremely thermophilic archaebacteria and eubacteria. Mikrobiologiya 62:90-95.
16. Krasin, F., and F. Hutchinson. 1977. Repair of DNA double-strand breaks in Escherichia coli, which requires recA function and the presence of a duplicate genome. J. Mol. Biol. 166:81-98.
17. Mattimore, V., and J. R. Battista. 1996. Radioresistance of Deinococcus radiodurans: functions necessary to survive ionizing radiation are also necessary to survive prolonged desiccation. J. Bacteriol. 178:633-637.
18. Minton, K. W. 1994. DNA repair in the extremely radioresistant bacterium Deinococcus mdiodurans. Mol. Microbiol. 13:9-15.
19. Minton, K. W. 1996. Repair of ionizing-radiation damage in the radiation resistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans. Mutat. Res. 363:1-7.
20. Moseley, B. E. B. 1983. Photobiology and radiobiology of Micrococcus (Deinococcus) radiodurans. Photochem. Photobiol. Rev. 7:223-274.
21. Peak, M. J., F. T. Robb, and J. G. Peak. 1995. Extreme resistance to thermally induced DNA backbone breaks in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus. J. Bacteriol. 177:6316-6318.
22. Ravel, J. Unpublished observations.
23. Resnick, M. A. 1978. Similar responses to ionizing radiation of fungal and vertebrate cells and the importance of double-strand breaks. J. Theor. Biol. 71:339-346.
24. Robb, F. T., J. B. Park, and M. W. W. Adams. 1992. Characterization of an extremely thermostable glutamate dehydrogenase: a key enzyme in the primary metabolism of the hyperthermophilic archaebacterium Pyrococcus furiosus. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1120:267-272.
25. Sandler, S. J., L. H. Satin, H. S. Samra, and A. J. Clark. 1996. recA-like genes from three archaean species with putative protein products similar to Rad51 and Dmc1 proteins of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nucleic Acids Res. 24:2125-2132.
26. Sandman, K., F. B. Perler, and J. N. Reeve. 1994. Histone-encoding genes trom Pyrococcus: evidence for members of the HMf family of archaeal histones in a non-methanogenic archaeon. Gene 150:207-208.
27. Woese, C. R., O. Kandler, and M. L. Wheelis. 1990. Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 87:4576-4579.