Yeast: Molecular and Cell Biology: 2nd Edition
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2025 | Viewed by 3878
Special Issue Editor
Interests: yeasts as a model organism; yeast genome and its stability; DNA replication and repair; cell cycle and its regulation; transcription; translation and posttranslational modification; signal transduction; mitochondria; synthetic biology; yeast biotechnology; biomedicines
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Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is the continuation of our previous Special Issue entitled “Yeast: Molecular and Cell Biology".
The yeast known as Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a popular model organism that is widely used in genetic and biochemical studies. An advantage of heterothallic yeast is the ability to stably exist both in haploid and diploid states. This makes it possible to not only carry out traditional genetic analysis, but also to study such specific aspects of eukaryotic cells, as well as cell cycle regulation and meiosis. Yeast turned out to be a very convenient object for genetic engineering, allowing the both introduction of exogenous DNA on plasmids and the integration of genomes. A feature of yeast is the predominance of homologous recombination during such integration.
The genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was the first eukaryotic genome to be sequenced. Numerous yeast databases make it easy to find up-to-date information; one such popular database is https://www.yeastgenome.org/.
Yeasts are widely used to analyze the genes of other eukaryotic organisms, as well as to study genes associated with human diseases. It was in this yeast that a two-hybrid system was developed to characterize and search for various protein–protein interactions. Yeast is one of the popular organisms used for the production of heterologous proteins in biotechnology. Many plasmids and yeast strains are commercially available, including sets of different deletion strains.
This Special Issue primarily aims to highlight the advantages of yeast as a model organism. This can be in the form of a review, a mini-review, an original research article, or a short communication.
Dr. Galina Zhouravleva
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- yeasts as model organisms
- yeast genome and its stability
- DNA replication and repair
- cell cycle and its regulation
- transcription
- translation and post-translational modification
- signal transduction
- mitochondria
- synthetic biology
- yeast biotechnology
- biomedicines
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