Multifactorial Resistance of Bacillus subtilis Spores to High-Energy Proton Radiation: Role of Spore Structural Components and the Homologous Recombination and Non-Homologous End Joining DNA Repair Pathways

An experimental investigation into the effect of periodic motion on proton dosimetry using polymer gel dosimeters and a programmable motion platform

(2012) Zhong Su et al.   PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY

Ionizing Radiation and Life

(2011) Lewis R. Dartnell   ASTROBIOLOGY

Impact of two DNA repair pathways, homologous recombination and non-homologous end joining, on bacterial spore inactivation under simulated martian environmental conditions

(2011) Ralf Moeller et al.   ICARUS

Role of the Nfo and ExoA Apurinic/Apyrimidinic Endonucleases in Radiation Resistance and Radiation-Induced Mutagenesis of Bacillus subtilis Spores

(2011) R. Moeller et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Overview of energetic particle hazards during prospective manned missions to Mars

(2011) Susan McKenna-Lawlor et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Astrobiological Aspects of the Mutagenesis of Cosmic Radiation on Bacterial Spores

(2010) Ralf Moeller et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Adaptation of Bacillus subtilis Cells to Archean-Like UV Climate: Relevant Hints of Microbial Evolution to Remarkably Increased Radiation Resistance

(2010) Marko Wassmann et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Space Microbiology

(2010) G. Horneck et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Mechanism of cluster DNA damage repair in response to high-atomic number and energy particles radiation

(2010) Aroumougame Asaithamby et al.   MUTATION RESEARCH-FUNDAMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF MUTAGENESIS

Roles of Small, Acid-Soluble Spore Proteins and Core Water Content in Survival of Bacillus subtilis Spores Exposed to Environmental Solar UV Radiation

(2009) R. Moeller et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Cosmic Rays: A Review for Astrobiologists

(2009) Franco Ferrari et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Effects of low fluences of radiations found in space on cellular systems

(2009) Kathryn D. Held   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION BIOLOGY

Migrating microbes and planetary protection

(2009) Wayne L. Nicholson et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Ancient micronauts: interplanetary transport of microbes by cosmic impacts

(2009) Wayne L. Nicholson   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Persistence of Biomarker ATP and ATP-Generating Capability in Bacterial Cells and Spores Contaminating Spacecraft Materials under Earth Conditions and in a Simulated Martian Environment

(2008) P. Fajardo-Cavazos et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

DNA damage induced by the direct effect of radiation

(2008) A. Yokoya et al.   RADIATION PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY

Characteristic of the radiation field in low earth orbit and in deep space

(2008) Guenther Reitz   Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Physik