Science news articles about 'yeast cell walls'

... once. The compound is zymosan, a component of yeast cell walls. However, the finding could guide scientists ... zymosan and TLR2 can deter white blood cells from attacking nerve tissue in a mouse model ...

... bona fide prion that alters the yeast cell wall in ways that are likely to be advantageous under ... go bad." The tools that the team has developed in yeast can now be applied to other organisms, he added ...

... , enabling them to fasten on to the invading yeast cells, kill them and then break them down. However other components in the yeast cell wall were found that can damp down this immune response. ...