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Involvement of homologous recombination repair after proton-induced DNA damage.
Mutagenesis - 1 Mar 2008
Rostek C, Turner E L, Robbins M, Rightnar S, Xiao W, Obenaus A, Harkness T A A
Abstract excerpt
Protection from chronic exposure to cosmic radiation, which is primarily composed of protons, in future manned missions to Mars and beyond is considered to be a key unresolved issue. To model the effects of cosmic radiation on a living cell, we used Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells harboring various deletions of DNA repair genes to investigate the response of cells to DNA strand breaks caused by exposure to 250 MeV...
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