Determining Regulatory Points of Signal Transduction in Helicobacter pylori
Helicobacter pylori is a genetically diverse, Gram-negative bacterium that infects the gastric mucosa of over half of the world’s population and is the leading cause of gastric cancer worldwide....
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I started my current Monroe project at the beginning of the summer session, rather than continuing from an existing research project from the academic year. Yusheng Qin, another student in my lab, has...
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It’s been awhile since my last post! I ended my last post describing the cloning reaction that allowed me to make a large number of copies of the plasmid that contained the region of interest. I had to...
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I ended my last blog post describing the difficulty of inserting the cat gene into my region of interest. Since those initial methods were unsuccessful, I had to try a new approach. In order to...
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This summer I set out to better understand how the two-component signal transduction (TCST) system crdRS regulates the napA gene in the bacterium Helicobacter pylori. TCST systems serve as important...
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