Dr. Murray Junop
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry
University of Western Ontario
Canada
Biography
Dr. Murray Junop is an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at university of Western Ontario, Canada.
Research Interest
Research in the Junop lab focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms governing repair of various types of DNA damage. Bacterial, yeast and human repair pathways are studied using a variety of genetic and biochemical tools, with the primary emphasis being determination of macromolecular structure using X-ray crystallography.
Publications
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Nguyen Y, Sugiman-Marangos S, Harvey H, Bell SD, Charlton CL, Junop MS, Burrows LL. Pseudomonas aeruginosa minor pilins prime type IVa pilus assembly and promote surface display of the PilY1 adhesin. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2015 Jan 2;290(1):601-11.
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Nguyen Y, Harvey H, Sugiman-Marangos S, Bell SD, Buensuceso RN, Junop MS, Burrows LL. Structural and functional studies of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa minor pilin, PilE. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2015 Oct 30;290(44):26856-65.
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Sugiman-Marangos SN, Weiss YM, Junop MS. Mechanism for accurate, protein-assisted DNA annealing by Deinococcus radiodurans DdrB. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2016 Apr 19;113(16):4308-13.
