A paper in PLoS Biology demonstrates that Deinococcus radiodurans, a radiation resistant bacteria is not resistant to radiation due to better DNA repair. Surprising, to me, since I always thought this was the power of radiation in order to sterilize foods ect. Apparently it is protein oxidation causes the effectiveness of irradiation, and radiodurans uses a Mn redox cycle to effectively protect proteins but not DNA.
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