What does Dra stand for?

Deinococcus Radiodurans

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Hence, (i) the existence of novel DNA metabolic protein complexes in Deinococcus radiodurans and (ii) their significance in its extreme phenotypes would be worth investigating.

Identification of a DNA processing complex from Deinococcus ...

Deinococcus radiodurans, nicknamed "Conan the Bacterium", is listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the "world's toughest bacterium".

Life on the edge

This new perspective comes from working with Deinococcus radiodurans, a bacterium nicknamed "Conan the Bacterium" because it survives huge radiation doses.

What is radiation's true target?

They say Deinococcus radiodurans could only have become so strong on the Red Planet, before coming to Earth on an asteroid.

LIFE ON VENUS SAY SCIENTISTS

Deinococcus radiodurans can withstand 3,000 times the dose of radiation that would kill a human.

Have the Martians already landed?

Accumulation of Mn(II) in Deinococcus radiodurans facilitates gamma-radiation resistance.

Recent progress in structure-function analyses of Nramp ...

To investigate the effects of this extreme acceleration on life, the researchers loaded two kinds of bacteria--the spore-forming Bacillius subtilis and the radiation-resistant Deinococcus radiodurans (SN: 12/12/98, p.

Bulletproof bacteria. (Astrobiology)

In 1956 a food technologist at Oregon State University made a startling discovery: cans of meat that had supposedly been sterilized with gamma radiation contained a thriving organism, subsequently named Deinococcus radiodurans.

Radio-Free Bacteria