For the study, Tiago Outeiro (o - TEE - ero), a graduate student in Lindquist's lab and lead author on the paper, assembled
a group of yeast cells, each containing varying levels of the aSyn protein.
Not exact matches
A research
group at the Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS)
of Goethe University in Frankfurt, together with colleagues at the Max Planck Institute
of Biophysics, has now discovered how
yeast cells measure the availability
of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids in foodstuffs and adapt their production
of membrane lipids to it.
They began diluting
yeast cells in the rest
of the wells, bringing the entire
group closer to collapse.
Her
group will focus on the biogenesis and homeostasis
of mitochondrial proteins and add mammalian and human
cell lines to current
yeasts.
This
group's achievement shows the possibility to clarify the mechanism
of human tumor formation, especially the molecular mechanism responsible for in the initial stage
of cell cancerization due to DNA damaged by radiation in the initial stage, by using the model
of budding
yeast, a primitive eukaryote.
In this context, the research
group of enotecUPM has developed a methodology that aims to exploit the high adsorption potential
of volatile compounds that shows the
yeast cell - walls used in early stages
of its development.
Yeasts constitute a
group of single -
celled (unicellular) fungi, a few species
of which are commonly used to leaven bread, ferment alcoholic beverages, and even drive experimental fuel
cells.
The
group took the first step toward their goal
of a novel engineering strategy for
yeast by creating what is known as a cDNA library: a collection
of over 90 %
of the genes from the genome
of baker's
yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), arranged within a custom segment
of DNA so that each gene will be, in one version, overactive within a
yeast cell, and in a second version, reduced in activity.
Lindquist's
group focused on a
yeast protein called sup35, part
of the normal
yeast machinery for making all the other proteins in the
cell.
β - Glucans belong to a
group of physiologically active compounds called «biological response modifiers» and represent highly conserved structural components
of cells walls in
yeast, fungi, and seaweed.