Sentences with phrase «identify yeast genes»

«His lab was the first to identify yeast genes that regulate autophagy.

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Here's how it works: Scientists identify the desired genes in a plant or animal and insert them into a host such as yeast.

Yoshinori Ohsumi, the most recent prizewinner, used baker's yeast to identify genes crucial in autophagy, the process by which cells recycle their components.

Here the homologous genes from the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe and human are identified.

They identified and isolated a gene family with GNA1 function, which was confirmed by enzyme activity assays in vitro and by its capacity to restore growth in yeasts lacking GNA1.

He identified some genes in the pathway and studied how it was regulated, comparing it to bacteria and yeast.

After identifying that short strand of DNA, the team members inserted it into yeast DNA and were able to grow copies of the few dozen genes it contained.

They then identified a novel enzyme at work in A. annua that completes the artemisinic acid synthesis and popped the gene for the enzyme into their yeast.

A dual yeast and human stem cell discovery platform for Parkinson's disease: Investigations in simple baker's yeast cells brought to light abnormalities in Parkinson's patient neurons and identified genes and small molecules that correct them.

Next, like every good yeast researcher should, they turned to the Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) to identify 86 genes that when knocked out, caused the mutant yeast strain to not grow in the absence of an amino acid.

Their contributions to the yeast community include physical mapping methods, synthetic lethality screen approaches for identifying cross-species candidate genes as potential cancer drug targets, and a widely used set of vectors and yeast host strains that have been instrumental in work that has led to countless discoveries in recent decades.

October 5, 2015 / Novato, California Following an exhaustive, ten - year effort, scientists at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and the University of Washington have identified 238 genes that, when removed, increase the replicative lifespan of S. cerevisiae yeast cells.

Identify genes and gene products involved in trafficking of proteins to the lysosome of Baker's yeast; study their conservation in humans and their connection to human diseases such as Alzheimer's and cancer.

The research team identified predictive models of transcription — the first step in gene expression — when the yeast cell is responding to osmotic stress (salt), which greatly affects cell growth.

Breeden, Prentice and Zhao, whose study appeared in the May 8 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, compared their new algorithm to other methods used to analyze microarray experiments designed to identify cell cycle genes in yeast.