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Dissection of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Asci
Published on: May 19, 2009
Genomic dissection of the cell-type-specification circuit in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
David J Galgoczy1, Ann Cassidy-Stone, Manuel Llinás
1Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94143-2200, USA.
Abstract:
The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has three cell types (a cells, alpha cells, and a/alpha cells), each of which is specified by a unique combination of transcriptional regulators. This transcriptional circuit has served as an important model for understanding basic features of the combinatorial control of transcription and the specification of cell type. Here, using genome-wide chromatin immunoprecipitation, transcriptional profiling, and phylogenetic comparisons, we describe the complete cell-type-specification circuit for S. cerevisiae. We believe this work represents a complete description of cell-type specification in a eukaryote.
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