Week 2 (DNA Damage, Repair and recombination)

  • Control of replication in eukaryotes and prokaryotes
  • Telomere and telomerases 
  • Structure and functions of Telemeres in chromosomes  
  • DNA damage, type of mutations 
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms 
    • Excision repairs Mechanism, BER, NER 
  • DNA genetic recombination
  • SOS response  and repair

Reading List 

  1. Telomeres 
  2. Telomerases and Aging 
  3. Lehninger, A. L. Principles of Biochemistry, Worth Publisher, New York
  4. Voet, D. and J. G. Voet,. Biochemistry, John Wiley & Sons, New York