Genome Stability

Genome Stability Edited By Igor and Olga Kovalchuk Table of Contents Introduction 1. Genome stability - an evolutionary perspective Igor Kovalchuk I. Genome Instability of Viruses 2. Genetic Instability of RNA Viruses John N. Barr and Rachel Fearns 3. Genome instability in DNA viruses Rafael Sanjuan, Marianoel Pereira-Gomez, Jennifer Risso II. Genome instability in Bacteria and Archaea 4. Genome instability in bacteria and archaea: Strategies for maintaining genome stability Jan-Erik Messling and Ashley B. Williams 5. Genome instability in bacteria: causes and consequences Ashley B. Williams 6. CRISPR - bacteria immune system Andrey Golubov III. Genome Stability of Unicellular Eukaryotes 7. Programmed DNA rearrangement in ciliates Franziska Jonsson 8. Homologous Recombination and Non-homologous End-joining repair in yeast Rebecca E. Jones and Timothy C. Humphrey IV. Genome stability in multicellular eukaryotes 9. Meiotic and Mitotic Recombination: First in Flies Julie Korda Holsclaw, Talia Hatkevich and Jeff Sekelsky 10. Genome stability in Drosophila - mismatch repair and genome stability Tomoe Negishi 11. Genome stability in Caenorhabditis elegans Matthias Rieckher, Amanda Franqueira C. Lopes and Bjorn Schumacher 12. Genetic Engineering of Plants using Zn-fingers, TALENs and CRISPRs Andriy Bilichak and Francois Eudes 13. Plant Genome Stability - General Mechanisms Andriy Bilichak V. Genome stability in mammals 14. Cell cycle control and DNA damage signalling in mammals Valenti Gomez and Alexander Hergovich 15. The role of p53/p21/p16 in DNA damage signalling and DNA repair Yavuz Kulaberoglu, Ramazan Gundogdu, and Alexander Hergovich 16. Roles of RAD18 in DNA Replication and Post-Replication Repair (PRR) Cyrus Vaziri, Satoshi Tateishi, Liz Mutter-Rottmayer and Yanzhe Gao 17. Base Excision Repair and Nucleotide Excision Repair Tadahide Izumi and Isabel Mellon 18. DNA Mismatch Repair in Mammals Mingzhang Yang and Peggy Hsieh 19. Repair of double strand breaks by non-homologous end joining; its components and their function Patryk Moskwa 20. Double-Strand Break Repair: Homologous Recombination in Mammalian Cells Camille Gelot, Tangui Le-Guen, Sandrine Ragu and Bernard S. Lopez 21. Telomere maintenance and genome stability Wilnelly Hernandez-Sanchez, Mengyuan Xu and Derek J. Taylor 22. The relationship between checkpoint adaptation and mitotic catastrophe in genomic changes in cancer cells Lucy H. Swift and Roy M. Golsteyn 23. Chromatin, nuclear organization and genome stability in mammals Lora Boteva, Nick Gilbert 24. Role of DNA methylation in genome stability Dan Zhou and Keith D. Robertson 25. Non-coding RNAs in genome integrity Igor Kovalchuk VI. Human diseases associated with genome instability 26. Human diseases associated with genome instability Bruno Cesar Feltes, Joice de Faria Poloni, Kendi Nishino Miyamoto and Diego Bonatto 27. Cancer and genomic instability Wei Wei, Yabin Cheng and Bo Wang 28. Chromatin Modifications in DNA Repair and Cancer Margaret Renaud-Young, Karl Riabowol and Jennifer Cobb 29. Genomic Instability and Aging - Causes and Consequences Corinne Sidler 30. Nucleolar contributions to DNA damage response and genomic (in)stability in the nervous system Michal Hetman VII. Effect of environment on genome stability 31. Diet and nutrition Lynnette R. Ferguson 32. Chemical mutagenesis 33. Environmental sources of ionizing radiation and their health consequences Aaron A. Goodarzi, Alexander Anikin, Dustin D. Pearson Section VIII. Bystander and transgenerational effects - epigenetic perspective 34. Epigenetics of transgenerational genome instability in mammals 35. Genomic Instability and the Spectrum of Response to Low Radiation Doses Carmel Mothersill and Colin Seymour 36. Transgenerational genome instability in plants Igor Kovalchuk 37. Methods for the detection of DNA damage Denis V. Firsanov, Ljudmila V. Solovjeva, Vyacheslav M. Mikhailov, Maria P. Svetlova 38. Conserved and divergent features of DNA repair. Future perspectives in genome instability research Igor Kovalchuk