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