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UV hyper-resistance in Prochlorococcus MED4 results from a single base pair deletion just upstream of an operon encoding nudix hydrolase and photolyase

Exposure to solar radiation can cause mortality in natural communities of pico-phytoplankton, both at the surface and to a depth of at least 30 m. DNA damage is a significant cause of death, mainly due to cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer formation, which can be lethal if not repaired. While developing a...

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Autores principales: Osburne, Marcia S, Holmbeck, Brianne M, Frias-Lopez, Jorge, Steen, Robert, Huang, Katherine, Kelly, Libusha, Coe, Allison, Waraska, Kristin, Gagne, Andrew, Chisholm, Sallie W
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2955971/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20345942
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02203.x