dept of biochemistry and molecular biophysics




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Peter M. Burgers
 Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biophysics

Office: 1911 South Building
Phone: 314-362-3872
Fax: 314-362-7183
Email: burgers@biochem.wustl.edu

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Mailing Address:
WUSM - Biochemistry Dept.
660 S. Euclid Ave., MS8231
St. Louis, MO 63110



Research Interests

Biochemistry and genetics of yeast DNA replication and repair



Selected Publications

  • Navadgi-Patil, V.M. and Burgers, P.M. Yeast DNA replication protein Dpb11 activates the Mec1/ATR checkpoint kinase. J Biol Chem (E-pub ahead of print.) (2008).

  • Burgers, P.M. Polymerase dynamics at the eukaryotic DNA replication fork. J Biol Chem (E-pub ahead of print.) (2008).

  • Kunkel, T.A. and Burgers, P.M. Dividing the workload at a eukaryotic replication fork. Trends Cell Biol (E-pub ahead of print.) (2008).

  • Rossi, M.L., Pike, J.E., Wang, W., Burgers, P.M., Campbell, J.L. and Bambara, R.A. Pif1 helicase directs eukaryotic Okazaki fragments toward the two-nuclease cleavage pathway for primer removal. J Biol Chem (E-pub ahead of print.) (2008).

  • Sommer, D., Stith, C.M., Burgers, P.M.J. and Lahue, R.S. Partial reconstitution of DNA large loop repair with purified proteins from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nuc Acid Res 6:4699-4707 (2008).

  • Nick McElhinny, S.A., Gordenin, D.A., Stith, C.M., Burgers, P.M. and Kunkel, T.A. Division of labor at the eukaryotic replication fork. Mol Cell. 30:137-144 (2008).

  • Wardle, J., Burgers, P.M., Cann, I.K., Darley, K., Darley, K., Heslop, P., Johansson, E., Lin, L.J., McGlynn, P., Sanvoisin, J., Stith, C.M. and Connolly, B.A. Uracil recognition by replicative DNA polymerases is limited to the archaea, not occurring with bacteria and eukarya. Nucleic Acids Res 36:705-711 (2008).

 

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