Science news articles about 'yeast gene'

... more variable from cell to cell. They determined that approximately 5 percent of yeast genes, or approximately 300 genes, break phenotypic robustness when knocked out. These genes tend to interact ...

... Then she exposed YPK9-deficient yeast cells to an excess of different metals -- zinc, ... Gitler then found that the protein made by YPK9, the yeast gene equivalent of PARK9, is localized to the vacuole ...

... Patel propagated the new prion from a normal yeast protein called Cyc8. They note that like ... Cyc8 can affect the expression of a large number of yeast genes. "We know this prion turns on the expression ...

... Amazon jungle. In a paper published on-line in FEMS Yeast Research, IFR scientists and colleagues from Pontificia ... Each new species adds to our knowledge of the yeast gene pool and even small genetic ...

... or single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), in three yeast genes account for nearly 90 percent of ... ,000 SNP differences between the two strains of yeast, and by moving just four of them, we effectively ...

... to WDR36 but much easier to experiment with. They introduced the suspected WDR36 variations into the yeast gene and tested its ability to function, and discovered that WDR36 wasn't working alone. ...

... production conditions during bioethanol production. Yeast genes TU Delft researchers have now ... ethanol by yeast. This replaced the normal role of glycerol so efficiently that key genes in glycerol ...