Science news articles about 'fission yeast'
Clues about controlling cholesterol rise from yeast studies
... have receptors on their surfaces that trap and absorb bloodstream particles containing cholesterol. Using fission yeast, the Johns Hopkins scientists identified the protein Insig as an integral part ...Yeast mimics severity of mutations leading to fatal childhood illness
... based on CLN3 gene defects identified in Batten disease patients. They studied the effects of these mutations in a fission yeast protein highly similar to CLN3. The research team found that human ...The structure of the Mre11 protein bound to DNA
... for continuing replication after repair. Now combining sequencing and biochemical studies of Schizosaccharomyces pombe (fission yeast), by Paul Russell and his lab at Scripps, with models based on ...Study unveils structural details of enzyme vital to DNA repair
... doesn't occur), and initiates homologous recombination repair of double-stranded breaks. Fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, is often used as a model in cell cycle studies. "The interesting ...Scientists develop method for comprehensive proteome analysis
... a large percentage of the total protein complement (proteome) in Schizosaccharomyces pombe (S. pombe) fission yeast. Laurence Brill, Khatereh Motamedchaboki, Ph.D. and lead investigator Dieter Wolf, ...CSHL researchers explain process by which cells 'hide' potentially dangerous DNA segments
... happens to be the amino acid lysine (K). This mark is therefore called H3K9me. In fission yeast, a model system used for studying heterochromatin mechanisms because of its comparative simplicity, ...Scripps scientists uncover mimicry at the molecular level that protects genome integrity
... cell cycle checkpoints and DNA repair. The fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe) DNA repair ... part of a unique protein family conserved from yeast to humans, is essential for cell viability; cells ...Scientists Develop Method For Comprehensive Proteome Analysis
Investigators have deciphered a large percentage of the total protein complement (proteome) in Schizosaccharomyces pombe (S. pombe) fission yeast.Cohesin jigsaw begins to fit
... that features thought to differentiate cohesin between organisms actually collectively define the overall behaviour of fission yeast cohesin. In fact cohesin's mechanisms of action might be much more ...Newly discovered mechanism in cell division has implications for chromosome's role in cancer
... , led by postdoctoral fellow Chuanhai Fu, PhD, began systematically mutating molecular motors in the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe and then clocking each mutant's cell division. Only in ...When proteins change partners
... combinatorial diversity during ubiquitination (the process that marks proteins for destruction). Using S. pombe fission yeast as a model, the Wolf laboratory uncovered an intricate relationship, in ...
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