A systematic library for comprehensive overexpression screens in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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Mating-based Overexpression Library Screening in Yeast
Published on: July 6, 2018
Grace Marie Jones1, Jim Stalker, Sean Humphray
1Department of Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, New York 10461, USA.
Abstract:
Modern genetic analysis requires the development of new resources to systematically explore gene function in vivo. Overexpression screens are a powerful method to investigate genetic pathways, but the goal of routine and comprehensive overexpression screens has been hampered by the lack of systematic libraries. Here we describe the construction of a systematic collection of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome in a high-copy vector and its validation in two overexpression screens.

