Journal
MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS
Volume 266, Issue 1, Pages 72-78Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s004380100520
Keywords
hyperthermophile; archaea; radioresistance; DNA double-stranded breaks
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Hyperthermophilic archaea of the genus Pyrococcus are resistant to gamma radiation, suggesting that efficient mechanisms for DNA repair exist in these organisms. To determine whether protective mechanisms might also be implicated in this radioresistance, we have estimated the linear density of DNA double-stranded breaks caused by gamma irradiation in the genomic DNA of two Pyrococcus species, using Escherichia coli and the radioresistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans as controls. The linear density of double-stranded breaks was essentially the same in all four microorganisms when irradiation was carried under similar anaerobic conditions, indicating that no specific DNA protection mechanisms exist in Pyrococcus species. Using one- and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis we compared the protein patterns from Pyrococcus abyssi and P. furiosus cells that had or had not been exposed to gamma rays. We did not detect any significant protein induction following DNA damage in either species.
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