Radiation Resistant Microorganisms
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 3673
Special Issue Information
Ionizing radiation affects cellular biomolecules including nucleic acids, proteins, and lipids directly or indirectly, eventually leading to lesions that can express themselves in a variety of biologically significant changes. Interestingly, microorganisms exhibiting high radiation resistance have been isolated from a wide range of environmental conditions, even though a naturally radiation intensive environment has not been found. Since Deinococcus radiodurans, one of the most radiation-resistant bacteria, was first isolated in 1956 from X ray-irradiated canned meat, the radiation-resistant microorganisms have been discovered in the three domains of life (Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya). These organisms are not only extremely tolerant to ionizing radiation, but also other DNA damaging agents and oxidative stress-generating conditions, such as desiccation. Therefore, characterization of the molecular mechanisms and key players underlying the multiple stress resistance helps us to understand their mysterious survival strategy and sheds lights on the biotechnological application of these strategies and their useful molecules, such as enzymes, polysaccharides, metabolites, etc. This Special Issue of Microorganisms calls for reviews as well as original research articles concerning any aspect related to radiation-resistant microorganisms, from the physiology and molecular biology to the applied aspects of radiation-resistant microorganisms.
Dr. Sangyong Lim
Dr. Hari S Misra
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- radiation resistant microorganisms
- comparative genomics
- DNA repair
- oxidative stress
- Ionizing radiation
- biomolecules
- biotechnology
- astrobiology
