SUSCEPTIBILITY OF MILD THERMAL AND OF IONIZING RADIATION DAMAGE TO SAME RECOVERY MECHANISMS IN ESCHERICHIA COLI

A correlation exists in E. coli between sensitivity to ionizing radiation and to thermal stress at 52°C. It is suggested that systems involved in recovery from damage inflicted by ionizing radiation are those which in a natural environment repair or bypass mild thermal damage, for example the breakage of single strands of the DNA duplex. © 1969.