Extremophiles: radiation resistance microbial reserves and therapeutic implications

DNA damage, neuronal and glial cell death and neurodegeneration

(2010) Ari Barzilai   APOPTOSIS

Substituent Effects of Pterin Derivatives on Singlet Oxygen Scavenging Activity

(2010) Hiroko Mori et al.   BIOLOGICAL & PHARMACEUTICAL BULLETIN

Lentiviral shRNA screen of human kinases identifies PLK1 as a potential therapeutic target for osteosarcoma

(2010) Zhenfeng Duan et al.   CANCER LETTERS

UV hyper-resistance in Prochlorococcus MED4 results from a single base pair deletion just upstream of an operon encoding nudix hydrolase and photolyase

(2010) Marcia S. Osburne et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Isolation of UV-B resistant bacteria from two high altitude Andean lakes (4,400 m) with saline and non saline conditions

(2010) María R. Flores et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Photoprotective compounds from marine organisms

(2010) Rajesh P. Rastogi et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

Distribution and Abundance of MAAs in 33 Species of Microalgae across 13 Classes

(2010) Carole Anne Llewellyn et al.   Marine Drugs

Complementary UV-Absorption of Mycosporine-like Amino Acids and Scytonemin is Responsible for the UV-Insensitivity of Photosynthesis in Nostoc flagelliforme

(2010) Lorenzo Ferroni et al.   Marine Drugs

UVA-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers in DNA: a direct photochemical mechanism?

(2010) Stéphane Mouret et al.   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

Chemical components and its antioxidant properties in vitro: An edible marine brown alga, Ecklonia cava

(2009) Yong Li et al.   BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

A comparative genomics approach to understanding the biosynthesis of the sunscreen scytonemin in cyanobacteria

(2009) Tanya Soule et al.   BMC GENOMICS

A Genome-wide RNAi Screen Identifies Multiple Synthetic Lethal Interactions with the Ras Oncogene

(2009) Ji Luo et al.   CELL

Extremotolerance in fungi: evolution on the edge

(2009) Cene Gostinčar et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Genome mining of mycosporine-like amino acid (MAA) synthesizing and non-synthesizing cyanobacteria: A bioinformatics study

(2009) Shailendra P. Singh et al.   GENOMICS

The effect of re-dissolution solvents and HPLC columns on the analysis of mycosporine-like amino acids in the eulittoral macroalgae Prasiola crispa and Porphyra umbilicalis

(2009) Ulf Karsten et al.   HELGOLAND MARINE RESEARCH

Deinococcus gobiensis sp. nov., an extremely radiation-resistant bacterium

(2009) M. Yuan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Bacillus horneckiae sp. nov., isolated from a spacecraft-assembly clean room

(2009) P. Vaishampayan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Prevention of the ultraviolet effects on clinical and histopathological changes, as well as the heat shock protein-70 expression in mouse skin by topical application of algal UV-absorbing compounds

(2009) F. de la Coba et al.   JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Iso-superoxide dismutase in Deinococcus grandis, a UV resistant bacterium

(2009) Na-Rae Yun et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Acceleration of 5-Methylcytosine Deamination in Cyclobutane Dimers by G and Its Implications for UV-Induced C-to-T Mutation Hotspots

(2009) Vincent J. Cannistraro et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Extremophile Culture Collection from Andean Lakes: Extreme Pristine Environments that Host a Wide Diversity of Microorganisms with Tolerance to UV Radiation

(2009) Omar F. Ordoñez et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Stochastic fate of p53-mutant epidermal progenitor cells is tilted toward proliferation by UV B during preneoplasia

(2009) A. M. Klein et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hymenobacter tibetensis sp. nov., a UV-resistant bacterium isolated from Qinghai–Tibet plateau

(2009) Jun Dai et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Life at Extreme Limits

(2008) Noha M. Mesbah et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Temperature downshift induces antioxidant response in fungi isolated from Antarctica

(2008) Yana G. Gocheva et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Subcellular integrities in Chroococcidiopsis sp. CCMEE 029 survivors after prolonged desiccation revealed by molecular probes and genome stability assays

(2008) Daniela Billi   EXTREMOPHILES

Mycosporine-like amino acid composition of the edible red alga, Palmaria palmata (dulse) harvested from the west and east coasts of Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick

(2008) Yvonne V. Yuan et al.   FOOD CHEMISTRY

Antioxidant activity of mycosporine-like amino acids isolated from three red macroalgae and one marine lichen

(2008) F. de la Coba et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYCOLOGY

Palythine–threonine, a major novel mycosporine-like amino acid (MAA) isolated from the hermatypic coral Pocillopora capitata

(2008) Mario O. Carignan et al.   JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY

Lichen metabolites prevent UV light and nitric oxide-mediated plasmid DNA damage and induce apoptosis in human melanoma cells

(2008) A. Russo et al.   LIFE SCIENCES

Effects of Abiotic Stressors on Synthesis of the Mycosporine-like Amino Acid Shinorine in the CyanobacteriumAnabaena variabilisPCC 7937

(2008) Shailendra P. Singh et al.   PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY