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Identification and disruption analysis of the recN gene in the extremely radioresistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans.
Mutation research - 22 Oct 1999
Funayama T, Narumi I, Kikuchi M, Kitayama S, Watanabe H, Yamamoto K
Abstract excerpt
We isolated a radiosensitive mutant strain, KR4128, from a wild-type strain of Deinococcus radiodurans, which is known as a extremely radioresistant bacterium. The gene that restore the defect of the mutant in DNA repair was cloned, and it turned out to be the homolog of the recN gene of Escherichia coli. The recN gene encoded a protein of 58 kDa, and, in its N-terminal region, a potential ATP binding domain was...
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