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Clpxp-Regulated Proteins Suppress Requirement For Reca In Dam Mutants Of Escherichia Coli K-12, Amie Savakis Oct 2018

Clpxp-Regulated Proteins Suppress Requirement For Reca In Dam Mutants Of Escherichia Coli K-12, Amie Savakis

Masters Theses

Double strand breaks (DSB) are a common source of DNA damage in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. If they are not repaired or are repaired incorrectly, they can lead to cell death (bacteria) or cancer (humans). In Escherichia coli, repair of DSB are typically accomplished via homologous recombination and mediated by RecA. This repair pathway, among others, is associated with activation of the SOS response. DNA adenine methyltransferase (dam) mutants have an increased number of DSB and, therefore, are notorious for being RecA-dependent for viability. Here, we show that the synthetic lethality of Δdam/ΔrecA is suppressed when clpP is removed, suggesting …


Able: Blockwise Site Frequency Spectrafor Inferring Complex Population Histories And Recombination, Champak R. Beeravolu, Michael J. Hickerson, Laurent A. F. Frantz, Konrad Lohse Sep 2018

Able: Blockwise Site Frequency Spectrafor Inferring Complex Population Histories And Recombination, Champak R. Beeravolu, Michael J. Hickerson, Laurent A. F. Frantz, Konrad Lohse

Publications and Research

We introduce ABLE (Approximate Blockwise Likelihood Estimation), a novel simulation-based composite likelihood method that uses the blockwise site frequency spectrum to jointly infer past demography and recombination. ABLE is explicitly designed for a wide variety of data from unphased diploid genomes to genome-wide multi-locus data (for example, RADSeq) and can also accommodate arbitrarily large samples. We use simulations to demonstrate the accuracy of this method to infer complex histories of divergence and gene flow and reanalyze whole genome data from two species of orangutan. ABLE is available for download at https://github.com/champost/ABLE.