PHYSSunday, 28 August 2005

1:20 PM-5:00 PM Washington DC Convention Center -- 143C, Oral
Frontiers in Photobiology
Light-driven DNA Repair
Organizer, Presidings:Linda A. Peteanu
Robert J. Stanley
1:20 PMMechanistic studies on the origin of UV-induced C to T mutations
J. S. Taylor, Bich Thi Ngoc Vu, Vincent Cannistraro, Liping Sun, Yinsheng Wang, Michael L. Gross
2:00 PMMechanism and models of DNA photolyase
Olaf Wiest
2:40 PMBase stacking, not base pairing, governs excited-state dynamics in A·T-containing DNA
Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández, Bern Kohler
3:00 PMIntermission
3:20 PMModification of the active site properties in the photolyase/damaged-DNA complex
Johannes P.M. Schelvis, Yvonne Gindt, Sofia Kapetanaki, Ullas Gurudas
4:00 PMElectron transfer in DNA/Photolyase complex: Structural and mechanistic insights from computer simulations
Alexei A Stuchebrukhov
4:40 PM(6-4) Photolesion and (6-4) Photolyase: A closer look at the enzymatic repair mechanism
Chris Harrison, Olaf Wiest

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