• Deinococcus radiodurans is a bacterium, an extremophile and one of the most radiation-resistant organisms known. (wikipedia.org)
  • Deinococcus radiodurans has a unique quality in which it can repair both single- and double-stranded DNA. (wikipedia.org)
  • In August 2020, scientists reported that bacteria from Earth, particularly Deinococcus radiodurans bacteria, were found to survive for three years in outer space, based on studies conducted on the International Space Station (ISS). (wikipedia.org)
  • Deinococcus radiodurans does not form endospores and is nonmotile. (wikipedia.org)
  • citation needed] Deinococcus radiodurans is capable of withstanding an acute dose of 5,000 grays (Gy), or 500,000 rad, of ionizing radiation with almost no loss of viability, and an acute dose of 15,000 Gy with 37% viability. (wikipedia.org)
  • To elucidate the structural basis of ribosome-antibiotic interactions, we determined the high-resolution X-ray structures of the 50S ribosomal subunit of the eubacterium Deinococcus radiodurans, complexed with the clinically relevant antibiotics chloramphenicol, clindamycin and the three macrolides erythromycin, clarithromycin and roxithromycin. (proteopedia.org)
  • citation needed] The complete DNA sequence of D. radiodurans was published in 1999 by The Institute for Genomic Research. (wikipedia.org)
  • D. radiodurans is the type species of this genus, and the best studied member. (wikipedia.org)
  • A tin of meat was exposed to a dose of radiation that was thought to kill all known forms of life, but the meat subsequently spoiled, and D. radiodurans was isolated. (wikipedia.org)
  • The work of Jane Setlow, M. E. Boling, and B. E. D. Mosely (1,2,3) at Oak Ridge on Micrococcus radiodurans has been the specific stimulant to my own interest in correlating genetic and molecular biological studies on radiation resistance. (nih.gov)
  • In a pilot approach to this idea one of my graduate students, Mr. Howard Eisenstark, examined a number of coil samples from the gamma- ray field at Brookhaven and had no difficulty in isolating a number of other radiation-resistant organisms of a level of resistance quite comparable to that of Micrococcus radiodurans. (nih.gov)