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. 1973 Apr;114(1):357–366. doi: 10.1128/jb.114.1.357-366.1973

Deoxyribonucleic Acid Repair in a Highly Radiation-Resistant Strain of Salmonella typhimurium1

Roland Davies a,2, Anthony J Sinskey a, David Botstein a
PMCID: PMC251774  PMID: 4572719

Abstract

Deoxyribonucleic acid repair was studied in gamma-irradiated wild-type Salmonella typhimurium and in a radiation-resistant derivative 20 times more resistant than wild type. After exposure to 20 or 50 krad, the wild-type strain (DB21) degraded 30 to 50% of its prelabeled DNA into acid-soluble fragments, whereas the radioresistant strain degraded less than 15% after 4 h of incubation. Post-irradiation synthesis of DNA in the wild-type strain DB21 was reduced after a dose of 20 krad and totally inhibited after exposure to 200 krad. With radiation-resistant strain, D21R6008, on the other hand, DNA synthesis was delayed after a dose of 200 krad but not inhibited. Doses of 20 and 200 krad produced a similar number of single-strand breaks in the DNA of both strains as determined by zone sedimentation analysis in alkaline sucrose gradients. The radiation-resistant strain D21R6008, on the other hand, DNA synthesis was strand breaks in its DNA and repairs these damages more rapidly than wild-type Salmonella.

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