Ringlike structure of the Deinococcus radiodurans genome: A key to radioresistance?

Science

Volumn 299, Issue 5604, 2003, Pages 254-256

  Levin Zaidman, Smadar ^a   Englander, Joseph ^a   Shimoni, Eyal ^a   Sharma, Ajay K ^b   Minton, Kenneth W ^c   Minsky, Abraham ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; IONIZING RADIATION; MORPHOLOGY;

RADIORESISTANCE;

GENES;

POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE;

DNA; GENOME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; DIFFUSION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE STRUCTURE; IONIZING RADIATION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSENSITIVITY;

CHROMATIN; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; DEINOCOCCUS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RADIATION, IONIZING; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SULFATES; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEINOCOCCUS; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0037428220     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1077865     Document Type: Article

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