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The article says > "To quote Bök himself: ... It needs no oxygen to live." And I assumed that this means that it's anaerobic. Out of curiosity I went to Wiki

The article says > "To quote Bök himself: ... It needs no oxygen to live." And I assumed that this means that it's anaerobic. Out of curiosity I went to Wikipedia to read up about this bug (1) And it says: > It is an obligate aerobic chemoorganoheterotroph, i.e., it uses oxygen to derive energy from organic compounds in its environment. Are they both correct? Can anyone clarify? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans

scajanus 1y ago
This (1) suggests that it can perform some metabolism in anaerobic conditions, but not all that it would need to grow/replicate: "Deinococcus radiodurans is an exceptionally radiation-resistant microorganism capable of surviving acute exposures to ionizing radiation doses of 15,000 Gy and previously described as having a strictly aerobic respiratory metabolism. Under strict anaerobic conditions, D. radiodurans R1 reduced Fe(III)-nitrilotriacetic acid coupled to the oxidation of lactate to CO(2) and acetate but was unable to link this process to growth." The abstract goes on to describe the metabolism in a bit more detail. 1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10788374/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10788374/