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An Infusion Approach to Optimizing the Mutagenesis of Rhodobacter sphaeroides
Description
Photosynthesis is the process by which plants, algae, and bacteria use light energy to synthesize organic compounds to use as energy. Among these organisms are a kind of purple photosynthetic bacteria called Rhodobacter sphaeroides, a non-sulfur purple bacteria that grows aerobically in the dark by respiration. There have been many contributions throughout the history of this group of bacteria. Rhodobacter sphaeroides is metabolically very diverse as it has many different ways to obtain energy--aerobic respiration and anoxygenic photosynthesis being just a couple of the ways to do so. This project is part of a larger ongoing project to study different mutant strains of Rhodobacter and the different ways in which carries out electron transfer/photosynthesis. This thesis focused on the improvements made to protocol (standard procedure of site directed mutagenesis) through a more efficient technique known as infusion.
Date Created
2014-05
Contributors
- Nucuta, Diana Ileana (Author)
- Woodbury, Neal (Thesis director)
- Lin, Su (Committee member)
- Loskutov, Andrey (Committee member)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
- School of Life Sciences (Contributor)
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11 pages
Language
eng
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In Copyright
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Academic Year 2013-2014
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.23340
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minimal
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