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SUBMITTER: Sugiman-Marangos S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2879517 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sugiman-Marangos Seiji S Junop Murray S MS
Nucleic acids research 20100202 10
Deinococcus spp. are renowned for their amazing ability to recover rapidly from severe genomic fragmentation as a result of exposure to extreme levels of ionizing radiation or desiccation. Despite having been originally characterized over 50 years ago, the mechanism underlying this remarkable repair process is still poorly understood. Here, we report the 2.8 A structure of DdrB, a single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) binding protein unique to Deinococcus spp. that is crucial for recovery following DNA da ...[more]