BacterioFiles 292 - Testing Tardigrade Tolerance Tricks

Tardigrade
By Bob Goldstein and Vicky Madden
CC BY-SA 3.0

This episode: Tiny super-resistant animals, tardigrades, make proteins that can directly shield DNA from radiation!

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Show notes:
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Journal Paper:
Hashimoto T, Horikawa DD, Saito Y, Kuwahara H, Kozuka-Hata H, Shin-I T, Minakuchi Y, Ohishi K, Motoyama A, Aizu T, Enomoto A, Kondo K, Tanaka S, Hara Y, Koshikawa S, Sagara H, Miura T, Yokobori S, Miyagawa K, Suzuki Y, Kubo T, Oyama M, Kohara Y, Fujiyama A, Arakawa K, Katayama T, Toyoda A, Kunieda T. 2016. Extremotolerant tardigrade genome and improved radiotolerance of human cultured cells by tardigrade-unique protein. Nat Commun 7:12808.

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