Related Experiment Videos
S-phase and DNA-damage checkpoints: a tale of two yeasts
1Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. e_stewart@rascal.med.harvard.edu
Current Opinion in Cell Biology
|December 1, 1996
Abstract:
Many genes required for the S-phase and DNA-damage checkpoints have been identified in the yeasts Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe. This year many checkpoint genes have been sequenced, providing new information about the mechanism of checkpoint control. Several of these genes are conserved between the two yeasts but others are species-specific.