Prokaryotic Genetics
1992-1993
Sept 21 Tony Poteete, Kenan Murphy, Greta Carraway, Te Wu.
Review of
Cold Spring Harbor meeting on genetics of bacteria and phages.
Sept 28 Tony Poteete.
Clyman, J. and M. Belfort, 1992, Trans and cis
requirements for intron mobility in a prokaryotic system. Genes and
Devel. 6: 1269-1279.
Oct 8 Kenan Murphy.
Foster, P. L. and J. Caims, 1992, Mechanisms of
directed mutation. Genetics 131: 783-389.
Oct 19 Anita Fenton.
Shean, C. S. and M. E. Gottesman, 1992,
Translation of the prophage cl transcript. Cell 70: 513-522.
Nov. 2 Martin Mannus.
Noller, H. F., V. Hoffarth, L. Zimniak, 1992,
Unusual resistance of peptidyl transferase to protein extraction
procedures. Science 256: 1416-1419.
Nov 9 Te Wu. Amábile-Cuevas, C. F. and B. Demple. 1991.
Molecular
charactgenzation of the soxSR gen3s of Escherichia coli: two genes
control
a superoxide stress regulon. Nucleic Acids Res. 19: 4479-4484.
Nov16 Koustubh Ranade.
Krinke, L., and D L. Wulff. 1990. RNase
Ill-dependent hydrolysis of lambda cll-O gene mRNA mediated by lambda
OOP antisense
RNA. Genes and Devel. 4: 2223-2233.
Nov 23 Leena Rassmunsen
Herendeen, D. R., G. A. Kassavetis and E. P.
Guidescheck, 1992, A transcriptional enhancer whose function imposes a
requirement that proteins track along DNA. Science 256:1298-1 303
Nov 30 Mike Volkert.
Gonnger, H. U., K A. Hijazi, E. J. Murgola and A.
E. Dahlberg, 1991, Mutations in 16s rRNA that affect UGA (stop
codon)-directed translation termination. PNAS 88: 6602-6607.
Dec 7 Greta Carraway.
Rajagopalan, M., C. Lu, R. Woodgate, M. O'Donnell
M. F. Goodman, H. Echols. 1992 Activity of the purified mutagenesis
proteins UmuC, UmuD', and recA in prelicative bypass of an abasic DNA
lesion by DNA polymerase Ill. PNAS 89: 10777-10781
Dec 14 Tony Poteete.
Strand exchange protein 1 from Saccharomvces
cerevisiae: A novel multifunctional protein that contains DNA strand
exchange and exonuclease activities. J. Bid. Chem. ?66: 14046-14054.
Feb 1 Martin Mannus.
RombyP., C. Brunel, J. Caiflet, M. Springer, M.
Grunberg-Manago, E. Westhof, C. Ehresmann, and B. Ehresmann. 1992.
Molecular mimicry in translational control of E. coli
threonyl-tRNA
synthetase gene. Competitive inhibition in tRNA aminoacylation and
operator-repressor recognition switch using tRNA identity rules. Nucl.
Acids Res. 20: 5633-5640.
Feb 8 Kenan Murphy.
Martinis, S. A. and P. Schimmel. 1992. Enzymatic
aminoacylation of sequence specific RNA minihelices and hybrid duplexes
with methionine. PNAS 89: 65-69.
Feb 22 Dale Rennell.
Otridge, J., P. Gollnick. 1993. MtrB from Bacillus
subtilis binds specifically to leader RNA in a tryptophan dependent
manner. Proc. Nail. Acad. Sci.
USA 90: 128-132.
Babilzke, P., and C. Yanofsky. 1993. Reconstitution of Bacillus
subtilis attenuation with TRAP, theRNA binding attenuation protein.
Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 90: 133-137.
Mar 1 GuI Bukusoglu.
Squires, C. L., J. Greenblatt, J. Li, C. condon
and C. L. Squires. 1993. Ribosomal RNA antitermination: Requirement
for Nus factors and one or more unidentified cellular components. Proc.
Natl. Acad. Sd. USA 90: 970-974.
Mar 8 Anita Fenton.
Melancon, P., W. E. Tappnch and L. Brakier-Gingras.
1992. Single base mutations at position 2661 of Eschenchia coli 23s
rRNA
increase efficiency of translationa proofreading. J. Bacteriol. 174:
7896-7901.
Mar 15 Tammy Loh.
Henry, M. F., and J. E. Cronan. 1992. A new mechanism
of transcriptional regulation: release of an activator triggered by
small molecule binding. Cell 70: 671-679.
Mar22 Koustubh Ranade.
Biere, A. L, M. Citron, and H. Schuster. 1992
Transcriptional control via translational repression by c4 antisense
RNA of bacteriophages P1 and P7. Genes and Devel. 6: 2409-2416
Mar 29 Mike Volkert Watson,
N. D. S. Dunyak, E. L. Rosey,, J. L.
Slonczewski and E. R. Olson. 1992. Identiofication of elements involved
in transcriptional regulation of the Escherichia coli cad operon by
external pH. J. Bacteriol. 174: 530-540.
Apr 5 Lene Rassmunsen.
Yamagishi, M. H. Matsushima, A. Wada, M.
Sakagami, N. Fujita and A. Ishihama. 1993. Regulation of the
Escherichia j gene encoding the ribosome modulation factor: growth
phase- and growth rate-dependent control. EMBO J. 12: 625-630.
Apr 12 Yu Li,
Arraiano, C. M., S. D. Yancey, and S. R. Kushner. 1993.
Identification of Endonudeolytic deavage sites involved in decay of
Escherichia coli mRNA. J. Bacteriol. 175: 1043-1052.
Apr19 Patriot's Day
Apr 26 Tony Poteete.
Dolan, K. M. and D. B. Oliver. 1991.
Characterization of Eschenchia coli SecA protein binding to a site on
its
mRNA inovived in autoregulation. J. Biol. Chem. 266: 23329-23333.
May 3 Paolo Landini.
McCann, M. P., C. D. Fraley, and A. Matin. The
putative a factor KatF is regulated posttranscriptionally during carbon
starvation. J. Bacteriol. 175: 2143-2149.
May 17 Emily Richmond.
Tanaka, K. Y. Takayanagi, N. Fujita, A.
Ishiharna, H. Takahasi. 1993. Heterogeniety of the principal sigma
factor in Escherichia coli: The
gene product sigma38 is a second principal a factor of RNA polymerase
in
stationary
phase Escherichia coli. Proc. NatL Acad. Sci. USA 89:3511-3515.
May 24 Anita Fenton.
Zambrano, M. M., 0. A. Siegle, M. Almiron, A.
Tormo and Roberto Kdter. 1993. Microbial Competition: Escherichia coli
mutants that take over stationary phase cuftures. Science 259:1757-1760.