Module 7 : Microbial Molecular Biology and Genetics

Lecture 2 : DNA Replication

DNA polymerase I

Proofreading and DNA repair

Final steps in DNA synthesis

Fig. 7 . Diagram of DNA polymerase extending a DNA strand and proof-reading.

REFERENCES:

Text Books:

1. Jeffery C. Pommerville. Alcamo's Fundamentals of Microbiology (Tenth Edition). Jones and Bartlett Student edition.

2. Gerard J. Tortora, Berdell R. Funke, Christine L. Case. Pearson - Microbiology: An Introduction. Benjamin Cummings.

3. J. Krebs, E.S. Goldstein, Stephen T. Kilpatrick. Lewin's Genes X. Jones and Bartlett Publishers.

Reference Books:

1. Lansing M. Prescott, John P. Harley and Donald A. Klein. Microbiology. Mc Graw Hill companies.