POSTERS

HDA AND THE REPLISOME IN ESCHERICHIA COLI

Baxter, Jamie C. and Mark D. Sutton

State University of New York at Buffalo

ENHANCING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS BY INHIBITING PRO-MUTAGENIC DNA SYNTHESIS

Berdis, Anthony J. and Andrea I. Ramos

Department of Pharmacology and the Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH 44106

THE COORDINATION AND MANAGEMENT OF DNA REPLICATION, REPAIR AND TRANSLESION SYNTHESIS BY THE E. COLI BETA SLIDING CLAMP.

Heltzel, Justin, Rob Maul and Mark Sutton

State University of New York at Buffalo

LOCALIZATION OF MSH2-MSH3 ON Saccharomyces cerevisiae GENOME

Kumar, Charanya and Jennifer A. Surtees

Dept. of Biochemistry, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo,NY 14214

The targeting mechanism of Tn7 to discontinuous DNA replication

Li, Zaoping, Adam Parks and Joseph Peters

Department of Microbiology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853

CRYSTAL STRUCTURES OF MONOMERIC, DIMERIC AND TRIMERIC PCNA: +PCNA-RING ASSEMBLING AND OPENING

Ling, Hong, Vladena Hlinkova, Guangxin Xing, Jacob Bauer &Yoon Jung Shin

Department of Biochemistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C1

DNA replication-Driven DM1 (CTG)n•(CAG)n Instability at An ectopic chromosomal site in human cells

Liu, Guoqi 1, Xiaomi Chen 1, John Bissler 2, Richard Sinden 3, and Michael Leffak 1

1 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio 45435, 2 Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220, 3 Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida 329013

IS DBF4 A LONG-LOST BRCT FAMILY MEMBER?

Matthews, Lindsay 1, Andrew Duong1, Ajai Prasad2, Bernard Duncker2 and Alba Guarné1. 1) Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON. 2) Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON.

MUKBFE: A COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP REGULATING CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION AND SEGREGATION

Menzies, Stuart 1,*, Melanie Gloyd1,*, Rodolfo Ghirlando2 and Alba Guarné1. 1) Department of Biochemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton (ON); 2) Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda (MD).

Yeast Mismatch Repair Protein Msh1p and Mitochondrial Base Excision Repair

Pogorzala, Leah and Elaine A. Sia, PhD

University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

MUTATIONS TO DBF4 MOTIF C WEAKEN INTERACTION WITH MCM2 BUT ENHANCE ASSOCIATION WITH RAD53 CONFERRING INCREASED RESISTANCE TO GENOTOXIC AGENTS IN SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE.

Prasad, Ajai A., Darryl R. Jones, Philip K. Chan, and Bernard P. Duncker
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3V5

GCN5 IS A POSITIVE REGULATOR OF ORIGINS OF DNA REPLICATION

Rehman,Muhammad Attiq, Maria Espinosa, and Krassimir Yankulov

Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, ON, Canada

KINETIC ANALYSIS OF ARGININE-FINGER MOTIF FUNCTION IN SACCAROMYCES CEREVISIAE CLAMP LOADER

Sakato, Miho and Manju Hingorani

Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Wesleyan University, Connecticut 06459

MCM2 REQUIRES NUCLEOTIDE TO REGULATE MCM4/6/7

Stead, Brent E., Christopher J. Brandl and Megan J. Davey

Department of Biochemistry, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry

University of Western Ontario, London, ON Canada, N6A 5C1

ARCHAEAL LIGASE IS A HOMODIMERIC PROTEIN THAT CIRCULARIZES SINGLE-STRANDED DNA AND RNA

Takagi. Yuko 1, Christopher Torchia1, and C.Kiong Ho1,2

Department of Biological Sciences1 and Microbiology and Immunology2

State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DNA DAMAGE CHECKPOINT PROTEIN HUS1 IN THE MOUSE MAMMARY GLAND

Yazinski, Stephanie A., Peter Westcott, Kelly Ong, and Robert S. Weiss

Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853

LUNG CANCER INDUCTION BY WIDESPREAD OVEREXPRESSION OF RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE IN TRANSGENIC MICE

Xu, Xia, Jennifer L. Page, Houchun Liu, Sarah Lagedrost, Young Lu, Alexander Yu. Nikitin, and Robert S. Weiss.

Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

ANALYSIS OF S. CEREVISIAE MISMATCH REPAIR PROTEIN MSH2-MSH6 INTERACTIONS WITH DNA

Zhai, Jie and Manju Hingorani

Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Wesleyan University, Connecticut 06459