About the Authors

Botagoz Joldybayeva

Contributed equally to this work with: Botagoz Joldybayeva, Paulina Prorok

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Biology, al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Paulina Prorok

Contributed equally to this work with: Botagoz Joldybayeva, Paulina Prorok

Affiliations Groupe «Réparation de l'ADN», CNRS UMR8200, Université Paris-Sud, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Inga R. Grin

Affiliations Groupe «Réparation de l'ADN», CNRS UMR8200, Université Paris-Sud, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France, SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

Dmitry O. Zharkov

Affiliations SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

Alexander A. Ishenko

Affiliation Groupe «Réparation de l'ADN», CNRS UMR8200, Université Paris-Sud, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France

Barbara Tudek

Affiliations Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Amangeldy K. Bissenbaev

smurat@igr.fr (MS); Amangeldy.Bisenbaev@kaznu.kz (AKB)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Biology, al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Murat Saparbaev

smurat@igr.fr (MS); Amangeldy.Bisenbaev@kaznu.kz (AKB)

Affiliation Groupe «Réparation de l'ADN», CNRS UMR8200, Université Paris-Sud, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests. This study was partially funded by a commercial source “Electricite de France, EDF (Scientific Commission - Council of Radiation Protection)”. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DOZ BT AKB AAI MS. Performed the experiments: BJ PP IRG AKB AAI. Analyzed the data: DOZ BT AKB MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BJ PP IRG AKB AAI. Wrote the paper: DOZ BT AKB MS. Contributed analysis tools for all of the experiments on DNA: BT AAI MS. Contributed analysis tools for protein structural modeling: DOZ. Contributed analysis tools for all of the experiments on plant materials: BJ AKB. Prepared polyclonal antibodies to the wheat protein: BJ AKB.