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Sensitivity of dark mutants of various strains of luminescent bacteria to reactive oxygen species.
Archives of microbiology - 1 Mar 2005
Lyzeń Robert, Wegrzyn Grzegorz
Abstract excerpt
Recent studies indicated that bioluminescence of the marine bacterium Vibrio harveyi may both stimulate DNA repair and contribute to detoxification of deleterious oxygen derivatives. Therefore, it was also proposed that these reactions can be considered biological roles of bacterial luminescence and might act as evolutionary drives in development of luminous systems. However, experimental evidence for the...
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