La reutilización funcional se reveló al comparar las interacciones genéticas de S. pombe y S. cerevisiae

Adam Frost1, Marc G Elgort, Onn Brandman

  • 1Department of Biochemistry, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, 84112, USA. frost@biochem.utah.edu

Cell
|June 12, 2012
PubMed
Resumen

La comparación de especies de levaduras revela interacciones genéticas conservadas y reutilizadas. Los descubrimientos clave incluyen nuevas funciones para los sensores de estrés ER, los factores ESCRT en la división celular y el complejo STRIPAK en la mitosis.

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