**Meet the editor**

Dr. Kruman received her PhD in Cellular Biology from Moscow State University (Russia). She is an Associate Professor in the department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA. Her research interests focus on mechanisms of apoptosis and DNA damage response in postmitotic neurons. She has authored over 50 scientific publica-

tions, including articles in major peer reviewed journals such as Neuron and Journal Neuroscience, book chapters and invited reviews.

Contents

**Preface XI** 

**Part 1 DNA Damage Response 1** 

Chuck C.-K. Chao

Chapter 5 **Shared Regulatory Motifs in** 

Chapter 6 **Mitochondrial DNA Damage:** 

Chapter 4 **The Potential Roles of DNA-Repair** 

Ge Wang and Robert J. Maier

Chapter 1 **A Recombination Puzzle Solved: Role for New DNA Repair** 

Ekaterina Krutkina, Daniel Klaiman, Tamar Margalit,

Chapter 3 **The Role of DDB2 in Regulating Cell Survival and Apoptosis Following DNA Damage - A Mini-Review 45** 

Chapter 2 **RloC: A Translation-Disabling tRNase Implicated in** 

Michal Chai-Danino and Alexander Kotlyar

**Proteins in Centrosome Maintenance 57**  Mikio Shimada, Akihiro Kato and Junya Kobayashi

**Promoters of Human DNA Repair Genes 67**  Lonnie R. Welch, Laura M. Koehly and Laura Elnitski

**Proteins: Lessons from BRCA1 and RAD51 Studies 103**  Effrossyni Boutou, Vassiliki Pappa, Horst-Werner Stuerzbecher

**Role of Ogg1 and Aconitase 85**  Gang Liu and David W. Kamp

Chapter 7 **Structure-Function Relationship of DNA Repair** 

and Constantinos E. Vorgias

**Systems in** *Helicobacter pylori* **Diversity/Persistence 3** 

**Phage Exclusion During Recovery from DNA Damage 21**  Gabriel Kaufmann, Elena Davidov, Emmanuelle Steinfels-Kohn,
