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.

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