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Molecular Mechanisms for Repair of DNA: Part a

Molecular Mechanisms for Repair of DNA: Part a

Hanawalt, Philip

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Series: Basic Life Sciences, Book 5

BiologyZoology

ISBN10: 1468428977
ISBN13: 9781468428971
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Dec 27 2012
Pages: 418
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
An age has passed in the 40 years since we first observed recovery from radiation damage in irradiated bacteria. During the early 1930s, we had been discussing the possibility of rapid changes after radiation exposure with Farring- ton Daniels, Benjamin Duggar, John Curtis, and others at the University of Wisconsin. After working with living cells, we had concluded that organisms receiving massive insults must have a wide variety of repair mechanisms available for restoration of at least some of the essential properties of the cell. The problem was how to fmd and identify these recovery phenomena. At that time I was working on a problem considered to be of great importance-the existence of the so-called mitogenetic rays. Several hundred articles and a score of books had already appeared dealing with mitogenetic rays, a type of radiation that was thought to exist in the shorter ultraviolet region. Our search for mitogenetic rays necessitated the design of experiments of greatest sensitivity for the detection of ultraviolet. It was vital that conditions be kept as constant as possible during exposure. All the work was done at icewater temperature (3-5 C) during and after exposure. We knew that light was an important factor for cell recovery, so all our experiments were done in dim light, with the plated-out cells being covered with dark cloth. Our statements on the effect of visible light stimulated Kelner to search for photoreactivation' (as it was later called).

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