Article
Lack of ultraviolet mutagenesis in radiation-resistant bacteria.
Mutation research - 1 Jan 2000
Tempest P R, Moseley B E
Abstract excerpt
Ultraviolet (UV) radiation did not induce rifampicin-resistant mutants in populations of the taxonomically-related radiation-resistant bacteria Deinococcus radiodurans, D. radiopugnans, D. radiophilus and D. proteolyticus, although such mutants arose spontaneously at a low frequency and at a high frequency after treatment of cultures with N-nitroso compounds. The radiation-resistant bacteria Arthrobacter...
Topics
- Bacteria
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Methylnitronitrosoguanidine
- Mutation
- Nitrosomethylurethane
- Radiation Tolerance
- Rifampin
- Species Specificity
- Ultraviolet Rays
