Investigating DNA Repair Processes in Bacteria: Can D. rad PriA load D. rad DnaB onto DNA forks with a leading strand gap?

Authors

Presenter(s)

Mike Ryan

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Description

My research focused on the repair and replication of damaged DNA in the Deinococcus radiodurans (D. rad) bacteria, which is able to survive extreme levels of DNA damage with no detriment to its health because it is very efficient at repairing damaged DNA. In replicating (copying) bacterial DNA, damaged DNA will cause the replication to stop. This requires the DNA replication to be restarted in order for replication to be completed and cell death avoided. In most bacteria the proteins that function to restart DNA replication at points of DNA damage are fairly well conserved from bacteria to bacteria; however the D.rad bacteria lacks many of those proteins. I investigated the interactions between the proteins in this pathway that D. rad bacteria has, resulting in a clearer understanding of how these proteins interact in the D. rad replication restart pathway.

Publication Date

4-9-2014

Project Designation

Honors Thesis

Primary Advisor

Matthew Lopper

Primary Advisor's Department

Bioengineering, Chemistry

Keywords

Stander Symposium project

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Business | Education | Engineering | Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences | Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Recommended Citation

"Investigating DNA Repair Processes in Bacteria: Can D. rad PriA load D. rad DnaB onto DNA forks with a leading strand gap?" (2014). Stander Symposium Projects. 468.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/stander_posters/468