The yeast deletion collection: a decade of functional genomics

G Giaever, C Nislow - Genetics, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The yeast deletion collections comprise> 21,000 mutant strains that carry precise start-to-
stop deletions of∼ 6000 open reading frames. This collection includes heterozygous and …

Recent advances in synthetic biology for engineering isoprenoid production in yeast

CE Vickers, TC Williams, B Peng, J Cherry - Current opinion in chemical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Isoprenoids are industrially important natural products.•Yeast are key industrial
production vehicles.•New synthetic biology approaches in recent years are reviewed.•Future …

Yeast creates a niche for symbiotic lactic acid bacteria through nitrogen overflow

O Ponomarova, N Gabrielli, DC Sévin, M Mülleder… - Cell systems, 2017 - cell.com
Many microorganisms live in communities and depend on metabolites secreted by fellow
community members for survival. Yet our knowledge of interspecies metabolic …

Cysteine toxicity drives age-related mitochondrial decline by altering iron homeostasis

CE Hughes, TK Coody, MY Jeong, JA Berg, DR Winge… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Mitochondria and lysosomes are functionally linked, and their interdependent decline is a
hallmark of aging and disease. Despite the long-standing connection between these …

Spontaneously established syntrophic yeast communities improve bioproduction

SK Aulakh, L Sellés Vidal, EJ South, H Peng… - Nature Chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Nutritional codependence (syntrophy) has underexplored potential to improve
biotechnological processes by using cooperating cell types. So far, design of yeast …

Metabolic heterogeneity and cross-feeding within isogenic yeast populations captured by DILAC

S Kamrad, C Correia-Melo, L Szyrwiel, SK Aulakh… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Genetically identical cells are known to differ in many physiological parameters such as
growth rate and drug tolerance. Metabolic specialization is believed to be a cause of such …

Cytosine DNA Methylation Is Found in Drosophila melanogaster but Absent in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, and Other Yeast Species

F Capuano, M Mülleder, R Kok, HJ Blom… - Analytical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The methylation of cytosine to 5-methylcytosine (5-meC) is an important epigenetic DNA
modification in many bacteria, plants, and mammals, but its relevance for important model …

Global analysis of the yeast knockout phenome

G Turco, C Chang, RY Wang, G Kim, EH Stoops… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Genome-wide phenotypic screens in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, enabled
by its knockout collection, have produced the largest, richest, and most systematic …

The proteomic landscape of genome-wide genetic perturbations

CB Messner, V Demichev, J Muenzner, SK Aulakh… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Functional genomic strategies have become fundamental for annotating gene function and
regulatory networks. Here, we combined functional genomics with proteomics by quantifying …

The fascinating and secret wild life of the budding yeast S. cerevisiae

G Liti - Elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been used in laboratory experiments for
over a century and has been instrumental in understanding virtually every aspect of …