Microbial Genetics (Micr340) Lecture 14 DNA Repair and Mutagenesis
Definitions Lesion: chemical damage in DNA Mutagens: chemical compounds that cause lesions in DNA which can kill cells and can also increase frequency of mutations in DNA
Evidence for DNA repair
Specific Repair Pathways Repair of deaminated bases Damage due to reactive oxygen Alkylation of DNA and repair Pyrimidine dimer repair
Base Deamination by nitrous acid
Spontaneous Base Deamination
Repair of altered bases by DNA glycosylases
Damage due to reactive oxygen
Mechanism of avoiding GO
Alkylation Of guanine
Repair of alkylated DNA Specific N-glycosylases Methyltransferases
Pyrimidine Dimer Formation
Photoreactivation
General Repair Mechanisms Methyl-directed mismatch repair system Nucleotide excision repair SOS inducible repair
A model for methyl Directed mismatch repair
A model for nucleotide excision repair
SOS response
Regulation of SOS mutagenesis in E. coli