Resistance of Bacillus Endospores to Extreme Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Environments

By W. Nicholson, N. Munakata, G. Horneck, H. Melosh, P. Setlow. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 2000

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• Not ready to use – overcoming pitfalls when dispersing nanoparticles in physiological media (2008, background): “It has been shown that spores are often more resistant to g irradiation than metabolically active bacteria (Roberts & Hitchins 1969), however, the underlying mechanism is still unclear (Nicholson et al. 2000).”
• Stratospheric microbiology at 20 km over the Pacific Ocean (2010, background): “For instance, the stratosphere has greater extremes of ultraviolet (UV) irradiation, desiccation, cold temperatures, and nutrient deprivation than the troposphere (Brasseur and Solomon 1986; Lysenko and Demina 1992; Nicholson et al. 2000 ).”
• Resistance of Microorganisms to Extreme Environmental Conditions and Its Contribution to Astrobiology (2010, background): “would be subjected to different stresses, including extreme vacuum, desiccation, solar and cosmic radiation, microgravity, and both extreme hot and cold temperatures [149].”
• Bacillus probiotics. (2011, background): “Together these protect the spore from UV radiation, extremes of heat (typically up to 80e85 C in most species), exposure to solvents, hydrogen peroxide and enzymes such as lysozyme (Nicholson et al., 2000).”
• Oxidative Stress Resistance in Deinococcus radiodurans (2011, background): “Bacillus spores are also radiation resistant (460) and accumulate high levels of manganese ions (176).”
• Survival of bacteria exposed to extreme acceleration: implications for panspermia (2001, neutral): “[11].”
• The respective roles of UV photons and oxygen atoms in plasma sterilization at reduced gas pressure: the case of N/sub 2/-O/sub 2/ mixtures (2002, background): “As in the first phase, inactivation by UV photons in the third phase is not instantaneous but results from a statistical process requiring a sufficient number of photons to hit the spore DNA strands and damage them in such a way that no repair of the genetic material is possible [ 25 ].”
• Viability of the lichen Xanthoria elegans and its symbionts after 18 months of space exposure and simulated Mars conditions on the ISS (2014, background): “by shielding against UV irradiation (Nicholson et al. 2000; Benardini et al. 2003; Cockell 2008; Horneck et al. 2008).”
• Evolution and adaptation of fungi at boundaries of life (2007, background): “Exobiology has focused attention for long time on prokaryote models (Horneck et al., 1994; Nicholson et al., 2000) because of their less complex organization, their earlier emergence, and putative higher resistance to stresses with respect to eukaryotes.”
• Role of Dipicolinic Acid in Resistance and Stability of Spores of Bacillus subtilis with or without DNA-Protective α/β-Type Small Acid-Soluble Proteins (2006, background): “The binding of the / -type SASP also drastically alters the DNA’s UV photochemistry, and this change is a major factor in the elevated resistance of dormant spores to UV light (17, 18).”
• Terrestrial Microorganisms at an Altitude of 20,000 m in Earth's Atmosphere (2004, background): “Research has led to the speculation that a spore-forming microbe could survive for extended periods of time in Earth’s upper atmosphere as well as interplanetary transport and if shielded within a particle, interstellar transport (Nicholson et al., 2000).”
• Spores of Bacillus subtilis: their resistance to and killing by radiation, heat and chemicals (2006, background): “Indeed, removal of the outer membrane along with much spore coat protein has no notable effect on spore resistance to heat, radiation and some chemicals (Nicholson et al. 2000; Setlow 2000).”