Kim was quite receptive to the idea, so I set out to study
yeast cell division.
Not exact matches
Yeast studies had suggested that Mus81 was critical for a specific stage in
cell division that's essential for chromosome recombination during reproduction.
They found numerous genes activated in the XYL regulon - controlled
yeast that upregulated pathways involved in growth, such as
cell wall maintenance,
cell division, mitochondrial biogenesis and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) production.
The researchers behind the new study say that the fact that this mechanism is highly similar in human
cells and
yeast cells suggests that it plays a key role in ensuring proper chromosome distribution following each
cell division.
Dr Nadeau added «Our results are even more surprising because the cortex gene was previously thought to only be involved in producing egg
cells in female insects, and is very similar to a gene that controls
cell division in everything from
yeast to humans.»
And if small RNAs influence
cell division in humans as they do in
yeast and Tetrahymena, minor disruptions in the machinery could lead to cancer.
A single
yeast cell normally goes through about 30
cell divisions in its five - day life span.
In animal
cells (as well as
yeast cells), the microtubules that act to separate chromosomes during
cell division are usually organized around a central structure.
«With the help of animal biologists, we found that chem7 had no effect on budding
yeasts and human
cells, which indicates that chem7 does not inhibit the
cell division of animal
cells.»
The assay uses time - lapse microscopy to monitor individual
yeast cells undergoing a small number of
divisions to form microcolonies.
Even when the researchers helped extend the
cells» life spans by knocking out a problematic gene, the
yeast DNA still started breaking down after 25
cell divisions.
To date,
yeast has taught scientists a lot about
cell division and DNA repair, processes that go wrong in cancer.
In
yeast cells, the
cell division cycle takes only 1.5 hours — meaning
yeast have a very rapid succession of generations.
Detailed genetic analyses have now shown that the
yeast cells individually multiply as many as six of their 16 total chromosomes during
cell division, and can reverse this multiplication again.
Partly based on his MIT Ph.D. thesis research performed in
yeast, Sheltzer suspects aneuploidy causes errors in DNA replication, as well as problems with chromosome segregation during
cell division.
Aurora kinases are enzymes that control mitosis, the process of
cell division, and were first discovered in the 1990s in
yeast, flies and frogs.
Simon's strategy is to compare the effects of a drug on a normal strain of
yeast and a strain with a mutation in one of the many genes that affect normal
cell division - a property that is disrupted in cancerous
cells.
The mechanistic complexity of the cascades will be explained using the examples of crucial Cdk1 targets including Sic1, the Cdk1 target and inhibitor controlling the G1 / S transition in budding
yeast, and Far1, the molecule defining the decision between mating and entry into
cell division.
fertilization in mice, he had switched to studying how
yeast cells duplicate their genome during
cell division.
Defeated by an initial project on in vitro fertilization in mice, he had switched to studying how
yeast cells duplicate their genome during
cell division.