Genome sequence of the radioresistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans R1.
Science, 1999/11/19;286(5444):1571-7.
White O[1], Eisen JA, Heidelberg JF, Hickey EK, Peterson JD, Dodson RJ, Haft DH, Gwinn ML, Nelson WC, Richardson DL, Moffat KS, Qin H, Jiang L, Pamphile W, Crosby M, Shen M, Vamathevan JJ, Lam P, McDonald L, Utterback T, Zalewski C, Makarova KS, Aravind L, Daly MJ, Minton KW, Fleischmann RD, Ketchum KA, Nelson KE, Salzberg S, Smith HO, Venter JC, Fraser CM
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Abstract
The complete genome sequence of the radiation-resistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans R1 is composed of two chromosomes (2,648,638 and 412,348 base pairs), a megaplasmid (177,466 base pairs), and a small plasmid (45,704 base pairs), yielding a total genome of 3,284, 156 base pairs. Multiple components distributed on the chromosomes and megaplasmid that contribute to the ability of D. radiodurans to survive under conditions of starvation, oxidative stress, and high amounts of DNA damage were identified. Deinococcus radiodurans represents an organism in which all systems for DNA repair, DNA damage export, desiccation and starvation recovery, and genetic redundancy are present in one cell.
MeSH terms
Bacterial Proteins; Catalase; Chromosomes, Bacterial; DNA Damage; DNA Repair; DNA, Bacterial; Energy Metabolism; Genes, Bacterial; Genome, Bacterial; Gram-Positive Cocci; Molecular Sequence Data; Open Reading Frames; Oxidative Stress; Physical Chromosome Mapping; Plasmids; Radiation Tolerance; Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Superoxide Dismutase; Thermus; Ultraviolet Rays
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