Repair of extensive ionizing-radiation DNA damage at 95 degrees C in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus
- 1 July 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 179 (14) , 4643-4645
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.179.14.4643-4645.1997
Abstract
We investigated the capacity of the hyperthermophile Pyrococcus furiosus for DNA repair by measuring survival at high levels of 60Co gamma-irradiation. The P. furiosus 2-Mb chromosome was fragmented into pieces ranging from 500 kb to shorter than 30 kb at a dose of 2,500 Gy and was fully restored upon incubation at 95 degrees C. We suggest that recombination repair could be an extremely active repair mechanism in P. furiosus and that it might be an important determinant of survival of hyperthermophiles at high temperatures.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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