Article
Thymine metabolism and thymineless death in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
Annual review of microbiology - 1 Jan 1998
Ahmad S I, Kirk S H, Eisenstark A
Abstract excerpt
For many years it has been known that thymine auxotrophic microorganisms undergo cell death in response to thymine starvation [thymineless death (TLD)]. This effect is unusual in that deprivation of many other nutritional requirements has a biostatic, but not lethal, effect. Studies of numerous m...
Topics
- Apoptosis
- Bacterial Proteins
- Culture Media
- DNA
- DNA Damage
- DNA Repair
- DNA, Bacterial
- DNA, Single-Stranded
- DNA, Viral
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Eukaryotic Cells
- Exodeoxyribonuclease V
- Exodeoxyribonucleases
- Mutation
- Prokaryotic Cells
- Thymidylate Synthase
- Thymine