The resistance to ionizing radiation of hyperthermophilic archaea isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vents

Details The resistance to ionizing radiation of hyperthermophilic archaea isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vents The resistance to ionizing radiation of hyperthermophilic archaea isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vents

Aug 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001esasp.496..243j&link_type=abstract

In: Exo-/astro-biology. Proceedings of the First European Workshop, 21 - 23 May 2001, ESRIN, Frascati, Italy. Eds.: P. Ehrenfreu

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Exobiology, Mars

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In this paper we present many results on radioresistance of hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Effects of gamma (γ) irradiation was first tested with Pyrococcus abyssi and showed that this micro-organism did not show any loss of viability until 2 kGy of γ-irradiation. Pulse Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) analysis conducted with different species belonging to Archaea and Bacteria suggest that no specific DNA protection system exist that could explain the radioresistance of P. abyssi. Moreover, the genomic DNA completely fragmented after 2 kGy is fully restored in vivo under optimal growth conditions. The DNA replication or irradiated cells at 2,5 kGy is delayed by a lag phase which could coincide to this DNA repair. An associated mechanism of DNA repair by excision could act with the recombinational DNA repair. In parallel to these studies three hyperthermophilic archaeons highly resistant to ionizing radiation were isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vents after the enrichment cultures were submitted to elevated irradiation doses (up to 20 and 30 kGy). All these novel species were more radioresistant than P. abyssi.

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