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| Michael DalySummaryAffiliation: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Country: USA Publications
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Death by protein damage in irradiated cellsMichael J Daly
Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences USUHS, School of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
DNA Repair (Amst) 11:12-21. 2012....
Comparative genomics of Thermus thermophilus and Deinococcus radiodurans: divergent routes of adaptation to thermophily and radiation resistanceMarina V Omelchenko
Department of Pathology, F E Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814 4799, USA
BMC Evol Biol 5:57. 2005..radiodurans is a mesophile, which is highly radiation- and desiccation-resistant. Here we present an in-depth comparison of the genomes of these two related but differently adapted bacteria...
Protein oxidation implicated as the primary determinant of bacterial radioresistanceMichael J Daly
Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
PLoS Biol 5:e92. 2007..We present the case that protein, rather than DNA, is the principal target of the biological action of IR in sensitive bacteria, and extreme resistance in Mn-accumulating bacteria is based on protein protection...
Modulating radiation resistance: Insights based on defenses against reactive oxygen species in the radioresistant bacterium Deinococcus radioduransMichael J Daly
Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, Maryland 20814 4799, USA
Clin Lab Med 26:491-504, x. 2006....
Engineering radiation-resistant bacteria for environmental biotechnologyM J Daly
Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
Curr Opin Biotechnol 11:280-5. 2000..A cleanup technology is being developed based on the radiation-resistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans, which is being engineered to express bioremediating functions...
Accumulation of Mn(II) in Deinococcus radiodurans facilitates gamma-radiation resistanceM J Daly
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
Science 306:1025-8. 2004..In contrast, Shewanella oneidensis and Pseudomonas putida have high iron but low intracellular manganese concentrations and are very sensitive. We propose that Mn(II) accumulation facilitates recovery from radiation injury...
The emerging impact of genomics on the development of biological weapons. Threats and benefits posed by engineered extremophilesM J Daly
Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Clin Lab Med 21:619-29, x. 2001..Using a generally applicable combination of conventional genetic engineering and genomic informatics, this extremely radiation-resistant and environmentally robust bacterium is being developed for biotechnology...
Genome of the extremely radiation-resistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans viewed from the perspective of comparative genomicsK S Makarova
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20814-4799, USA
Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 65:44-79. 2001..In combination, these observations suggest that several different biological mechanisms contribute to the multiple DNA repair-dependent phenotypes of this organism...
Specific expansion of protein families in the radioresistant bacterium Deinococcus radioduransK S Makarova
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
Genetica 108:25-34. 2000..Such unique proteins are good targets for knock-out and gene expression studies, which are aimed to shed light on the unusual features of this interesting bacterium...
How radiation kills cells: survival of Deinococcus radiodurans and Shewanella oneidensis under oxidative stressDebabrota Ghosal
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
FEMS Microbiol Rev 29:361-75. 2005....
Protein oxidation: key to bacterial desiccation resistance?James K Fredrickson
Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
ISME J 2:393-403. 2008..We present the case that survival of bacteria that inhabit dry-climate soils are highly dependent on mechanisms, which limit protein oxidation during dehydration...
Hg(II) sequestration and protection by the MerR metal-binding domain (MBD)Jie Qin
Department of Microbiology and the Center for Metalloenzyme Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 2605, USA
Microbiology 152:709-19. 2006..MBD expressed in the cystosol also afforded improved survival from Hg(II) exposure for E. coli and for the completely unrelated bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans...
Transcriptome analysis applied to survival of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 exposed to ionizing radiationXiaoyun Qiu
Center for Microbial Ecology, PSSB 540, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Bacteriol 188:1199-204. 2006..Instead, a combination of oxidative stress, protein damage, and prophage-mediated cell lysis during irradiation and recovery might underlie this organism's great sensitivity to IR...
The structure of D. radioduransJohn R Battista
Science 302:567-8; author reply 567-8. 2003
Global analysis of the Deinococcus radiodurans proteome by using accurate mass tagsMary S Lipton
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, MSIN: K8-98, Richland, WA 99352, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:11049-54. 2002..This fraction represents the broadest proteome coverage for any organism to date and includes 715 proteins previously annotated as either hypothetical or conserved hypothetical...
Transcriptome dynamics of Deinococcus radiodurans recovering from ionizing radiationYongqing Liu
Environmental Sciences and Life Sciences Divisions, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:4191-6. 2003..Components of this network include a predicted distinct ATP-dependent DNA ligase and metabolic pathway switching that could prevent additional genomic damage elicited by metabolism-induced free radicals...
Deinococcus radiodurans engineered for complete toluene degradation facilitates Cr(VI) reductionHassan Brim
Department of Microbiology and Cancer Center, Howard University, 2041 Georgia Avenue N W, Washington, DC 20060, USA
Microbiology 152:2469-77. 2006..As such, the Tod/Xyl strain could provide a model for examining the reduction of metals coupled to organic contaminant oxidation in aerobic radionuclide-contaminated sediments...
Multiple uracil-DNA glycosylase activities in Deinococcus radioduransMargarita Sandigursky
Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
DNA Repair (Amst) 3:163-9. 2004..radiodurans crude cell extracts utilizing the Ugi peptide. The implications for D. radiodurans having multiple uracil-DNA glycosylase activities and other possible roles for these enzymes are discussed...
Deinococcus geothermalis: the pool of extreme radiation resistance genes shrinksKira S Makarova
National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
PLoS ONE 2:e955. 2007....
Engineering Deinococcus geothermalis for bioremediation of high-temperature radioactive waste environmentsHassan Brim
Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20814, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 69:4575-82. 2003..These characteristics support the prospective development of this thermophilic radiophile for bioremediation of radioactive mixed waste environments with temperatures as high as 55 degrees C...
Research Grants
- RADIOBIOLOGY OF D RADIODURANS--GENETIC APPROACHMichael Daly; Fiscal Year: 2001..These studies will delineate the genetics and biochemistry of radioresistance in D. radiodurans. Insight into its strategies may have broad implications for understanding radioresistance and DSB-metabolism throughout nature. ..
