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Resistance to UVB radiation in Antarctic yeasts
Masego Tsimako1, Sharon Guffogg, Skye Thomas-Hall
1School of Biological, Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Human Biology, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia.
Redox Report : Communications in Free Radical Research
|April 12, 2003
Abstract:
Yeast cells were used as a model system to study the inter-relationship among free radicals, antioxidants and UV-induced cell damage. In particular, the effects of UV-radiation in newly isolated yeasts from the Antarctic have been studied.