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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Escherichia coli
SUBMITTER: Dipen Sangurdekar
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-19879 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Molecular microbiology 20100201 6
Thymine starvation results in a terminal cellular condition known as thymineless death (TLD), which is the basis of action for several common antibiotics and anticancer drugs. We characterized the onset and progression of TLD in Escherichia coli and found that DNA damage is the only salient property that distinguishes cells irreversibly senesced under thymine starvation from cells reversibly arrested by the nucleotide limitation. The damage is manifested as the relative loss of genetic material ...[more]