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Title: Evolution and transcriptomics in proteobacteria
Author: Armillas Montornés, Alexandre
Tutor: Erill, Ivan  
Others: Ventura, Carles  
Abstract: The object of this thesis is to study an anomaly in the recognized motif by the transcriptional factor LexA in Methylomonas koyamae and certain novel genera of Gammaproteobacteria. Traditionally, LexA binding motifs have been believed to be monophyletic, that is, Alphaproteobacteria recognizes one motif, while Gammaproteobacteria recognizes an unrelated motif. An unexpected case, for LexA is a transcription factor in the SOS response, which coordinates the process of DNA repair. The aim is to hypothesize what events, in an evolutionary scale, have led to this situation, with the goal of better understanding how can the motif associated to such a crucial pathway can change over time, and possible applications when it comes to directing the regulation of the cells, or how to modify such pathways for our benefit. Due to the large volume of data, manual analysis is not a viable direction, thus, Python will be used to automate the process, alongside CGB (Comparative genomics of transcriptional regulation in Bacteria), to evaluate how widespread the anomalous motif is in suspect Gammaproteobacteria genera, closely related to Methylomonas, identify which operons are regulated by each motif in every species, and overlay such data over an established taxonomy tree of Proteobacteria so as to formulate an hypothesis to explain it. The results are made up by the results from CGB, a series of taxonomic trees for LexA and 16S rRNA, and an interpretation of the data.
Keywords: transcription
proteobacteria
Python
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Issue Date: 24-Jun-2020
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/  
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