A critical review of uranium contamination in groundwater: treatment and sludge disposal

TP Gandhi, PV Sampath, SM Maliyekkal - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Dissolved uranium in groundwater at high concentrations is an emerging global threat to
human and ecological health due to its radioactivity and chemical toxicity. Uranium can …

Oxidative Stress Resistance in Deinococcus radiodurans

D Slade, M Radman - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Deinococcus radiodurans is a robust bacterium best known for its capacity to repair massive
DNA damage efficiently and accurately. It is extremely resistant to many DNA-damaging …

Mutations in the DJ-1 Gene Associated with Autosomal Recessive Early-Onset Parkinsonism

V Bonifati, P Rizzu, MJ Van Baren, O Schaap… - Science, 2003 - science.org
The DJ-1 gene encodes a ubiquitous, highly conserved protein. Here, we show that DJ-1
mutations are associated with PARK7, a monogenic form of human parkinsonism. The …

Genome of the Extremely Radiation-Resistant Bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans Viewed from the Perspective of Comparative Genomics

KS Makarova, L Aravind, YI Wolf… - Microbiology and …, 2001 - Am Soc Microbiol
The bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans shows remarkable resistance to a range of
damage caused by ionizing radiation, desiccation, UV radiation, oxidizing agents, and …

DNA damage and survival time course of deinococcal cell pellets during 3 years of exposure to outer space

Y Kawaguchi, M Shibuya, I Kinoshita, J Yatabe… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The hypothesis called “panspermia” proposes an interplanetary transfer of life. Experiments
have exposed extremophilic organisms to outer space to test microbe survivability and the …

Architectural design drives the biogeography of indoor bacterial communities

SW Kembel, JF Meadow, TK O'Connor, G Mhuireach… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Architectural design has the potential to influence the microbiology of the built
environment, with implications for human health and well-being, but the impact of design on …

Reassembly of shattered chromosomes in Deinococcus radiodurans

K Zahradka, D Slade, A Bailone, S Sommer… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Dehydration or desiccation is one of the most frequent and severe challenges to living cells.
The bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans is the best known extremophile among the few …

Analysis of Deinococcus radiodurans's transcriptional response to ionizing radiation and desiccation reveals novel proteins that contribute to extreme radioresistance

M Tanaka, AM Earl, HA Howell, MJ Park, JA Eisen… - Genetics, 2004 - academic.oup.com
During the first hour after a sublethal dose of ionizing radiation, 72 genes were upregulated
threefold or higher in D. radiodurans R1. Thirty-three of these loci were also among a set of …

Microbial diversity of cryptoendolithic communities from the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

JR de la Torre, BM Goebel, EI Friedmann… - Applied and …, 2003 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT In the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, microorganisms colonize the pore
spaces of exposed rocks and are thereby protected from the desiccating environmental …

Deinococcus radiodurans: What Belongs to the Survival Kit?

M Blasius, U Hübscher, S Sommer - Critical reviews in …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Deinococcus radiodurans, one of the most radioresistant organisms known to date, is able to
repair efficiently hundreds of DNA double-and single-strand breaks as well as other types of …