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Robinson, C, K. Webb, A. Kaur, P. Jaruga, M. Dizdaroglu, N. Baliga, and J. DiRuggiero. 2011. A major role for non-enzymatic antioxidant processes in the radiation resistance of Halobacterium salinarum. J. Bacteriol. 193:1653-1662.

Kaur, A., P.T. Van, C.R. Bush, C. Robinson, M. Pan, W.L. Pang, D. Reiss, J. DiRuggiero, and N.S. Baliga. 2010. Coordination of frontiere defense mechanisms under severe oxidative stress. Mol. Syst. Biol. 393 doi:10.1038/msb.2010.50.

Bush, C.R. and J. DiRuggiero. 2010. MutS and MutL are dispensable for maintenance of the genomic mutation rate in the halophilic archaeon, Halobacterium salinarum. PLoS ONE doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009045.

Kish, A., G. Kirkali, C. Robinson, R. Resenblatt, P. Jaruga, M. Dizdaroglu and J. DiRuggiero. 2009. Salt shield: intracellular salts provide protection against ionizing radiation in the halophilic archaeon, Halobacterium salinarum. Environ. Microbiol. 11:1066-1078.

White J.R., Escobar-Paramo P., Mongodin E.F., Nelson K.A. and J. DiRuggiero. 2008. Extensive genome rearrangements and multiple horizontal gene transfers in a population of Pyrococcus isolates from Vulcano Island, Italy. Appl. Environ. Microbial. 74:6447-6451.

Kish A. and J. DiRuggiero. 2008. Rad50 is not essential for the Mre11-dependent repair of DNA double-strand breaks in Halobacterium sp. strain NRC-1. J. Bacteriol. 190:5210-5216.

Bonneau R., Facciotti M.T., Reiss D.J., Pan M., Kaur A., Thorsson V., Shannon P., Johnson M., Bare C.J., Longabaugh W., Vuthoori M., Schmid A., Whitehead K., DiRuggiero J., Johnson C., Hood L. and N. S. Baliga. 2007. A predictive systems model for transcriptional control of physiology in an extremophile. Cell. 131:1354-1365.

Whitehead* K., A. Kish* A., M. Pan, A. Kaur, D.J. Reiss, N. King, L. Hohmann, J . DiRuggiero and N. S. Baliga. 2006. Stress management: Using a systems approach to understand stress response to gamma radiation, (*these authors contributed equally to this work). Mol. Syst. Biol. 2:47.

Williams E., T. Lowe, J. Savas and J. DiRuggiero. 2006. Microarray analysis of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus exposed to gamma irradiation. Extremophiles 1:19-29.

Escobar-Paramo P., S. Gosh and J. DiRuggiero. 2005. Evidence for genetic drift in the diversification of a geographically isolated population of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus . Mol. Biol. Evol. 22:2297-2303

Kottemann M., A. Kish, S. Bjork, C. Iloanusi and J. DiRuggiero. 2005. Desiccation and gamma irradiation repair in the halophilic archaeon Halobacterium NRC1. Extremophiles 9: 219-227

Baliga N., S. Bjork, R. Bonneau, M. Pan, C. Iloanusi, M. Kottermann, H. Hood. and J. DiRuggiero. 2004. Systems level insights into mechanisms of stress response to UV irradiation in Halobacterium sp. NRC-1 , Genome Res. 14:1025-1035

Kanoksilapatham W., González J.M., Maeder D.L., DiRuggiero J. and F.T. Robb. 2004. A proposal to rename the hyperthermophile Pyrococcus woesei as Pyrococcus furiosus , sub sp. woesei. Archaea 1:277-283

DiRuggiero J. and F.T. Robb. 2004. Early Evolution of DNA Repair Mechanisms. In: The Genetic Code and the Origin of Life. Ribas de Pouplana L. (ed.), Landes Biosciences pp. 474-485

Ward D.E., I.M. Revet, R. Nandakumar, J.H. Tuttle, W.M. de Vos, J. van der Oost, and J. DiRuggiero . 2002. Characterization of the plasmid pRT1 from Pyrococcus sp. Strain JT1. J. Bacteriol. 184:2561-2566

Saffary R., R. Nandakumar, D. Spencer, F.T. Robb, J. M. Davila, M. Swartz, L. Ofman, R. J. Thomas and J. DiRuggiero . 2002. Microbial survival to space vacuum and extreme ultraviolet irradiation: strains isolation and analysis during a rocket flight. FEMS Microbiol. Let. 215:163-168

Inwood W., S. Kane, J. DiRuggiero , F.T. Robb and A. J. Clark. 2001. The RadB protein from Pyrococcus does not complement E. coli recA mutations in vivo. Mol. Genet. Genomics. 265:683-686

Robb F.T., D.L. Maeder, J.R. Brown, J. DiRuggiero , M.D. Stump, R.K. Yeh, R.B. Weiss and D.M. Dunn. 2001. The genomic sequence of the hyperthermophile, Pyrococcus furiosus : implications for physiology and enzymology. Methods in Enzymology. 330:134-157

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