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Developing a genetic system in Deinococcus radiodurans for analyzing mutations.
Genetics - 1 Feb 2004
Kim Mandy, Wolff Erika, Huang Tiffany, Garibyan Lilit, Earl Ashlee M, Battista John R, Miller Jeffrey H
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We have applied a genetic system for analyzing mutations in Escherichia coli to Deinococcus radiodurans, an extremeophile with an astonishingly high resistance to UV- and ionizing-radiation-induced mutagenesis. Taking advantage of the conservation of the beta-subunit of RNA polymerase among most prokaryotes, we derived again in D. radiodurans the rpoB/Rif(r) system that we developed in E. coli to monitor base...
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