Limiting the Broadcast Range of a Secreting Cell during Intercellular Signaling Using Protease-Mediated Degradation

J Cole, R Schulman - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2024 - ACS Publications
Synthetic biology is revolutionizing our approaches to biocomputing, diagnostics, and
environmental monitoring through the use of designed genetic circuits that perform a …

Yeast sexes: mating types do not determine the sexes in Metschnikowia species

MA Lachance, C Burke, K Nygard… - FEMS Yeast …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Although filamentous Ascomycetes may produce structures that are interpreted as male and
female gametangia, ascomycetous yeasts are generally not considered to possess male …

TOR signaling regulates GPCR levels on the plasma membrane and suppresses the Saccharomyces cerevisiae mating pathway

NR Leclerc, T Dunne, S Shrestha, CP Johnson… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Saccharomyces cerevisiae respond to mating pheromone through the GPCRs Ste2 and
Ste3, which promote growth of a mating projection in response to ligand binding. This …

Optogenetic control of pheromone gradients reveals functional limits of mating behavior in budding yeast

A Banderas, M Hofmann, C Cordier, M Le Bec… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Cell-cell communication through diffusible signals allows distant cells to coordinate
biological functions. Such coordination depends on the signal landscapes generated by …