GENETIC-CHARACTERIZATION OF 40 IONIZING RADIATION-SENSITIVE STRAINS OF DEINOCOCCUS-RADIODURANS - LINKAGE INFORMATION FROM TRANSFORMATION

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作者
MATTIMORE, V [1 ]
UDUPA, KS [1 ]
BERNE, GA [1 ]
BATTISTA, JR [1 ]
机构
[1] LOUISIANA STATE UNIV, DEPT MICROBIOL, BATON ROUGE, LA 70803 USA
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10.1128/jb.177.18.5232-5237.1995
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
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Natural transformation was used to help define a collection of ionizing radiation-sensitive strains of Deinococcus radiodurans. Three putative rec mutations were identified, as were three pol alleles. Forty of the ionizing radiation-sensitive strains were placed into 16 linkage groups, and evidence obtained indicates that each linkage group consists of a cluster of mutations not more than 1,000 bp apart. In addition, a new class of D. radiodurans mutant was described that, radioresistant, appears to recover from ionizing radiation-induced DNA damage slowly relative to other strains of D. radiodurans.
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