Yeast knockouts peel back secrets of cell protein function
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 - 03:41
in Biology & Nature
To fill in the blanks on mitochondria, researchers deleted 174 genes, one by one, in yeast. They then subjected the yeast to high-intensity mass spectrometry to measure unprecedented detail on thousands of metabolic products, including proteins, intermediate chemicals called metabolites, and lipids.