Survival kit of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for anhydrobiosis

S Dupont, A Rapoport, P Gervais, L Beney - Applied Microbiology and …, 2014 - Springer
Yeast cells are well adapted to interfacial habitats, such as the surfaces of soil or plants,
where they can resist frequent fluctuations between wet and dry conditions. Saccharomyces …

Anhydrobiosis: Inside yeast cells

A Rapoport, EA Golovina, P Gervais, S Dupont… - Biotechnology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Under natural conditions yeast cells as well as other microorganisms are regularly subjected
to the influence of severe drought, which leads to their serious dehydration. The dry seasons …

Promoter decoding of transcription factor dynamics involves a trade‐off between noise and control of gene expression

AS Hansen, EK O'shea - Molecular systems biology, 2013 - embopress.org
Numerous transcription factors (TFs) encode information about upstream signals in the
dynamics of their activation, but how downstream genes decode these dynamics remains …

Limits on information transduction through amplitude and frequency regulation of transcription factor activity

AS Hansen, EK O'Shea - Elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
Signaling pathways often transmit multiple signals through a single shared transcription
factor (TF) and encode signal information by differentially regulating TF dynamics. However …

Identification of a novel LEA protein involved in freezing tolerance in wheat

K Sasaki, NK Christov, S Tsuda… - Plant and cell …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins are a family of hyper-hydrophilic proteins that
accumulate in response to cellular dehydration. Originally identified as plant proteins …

[HTML][HTML] Rewiring Saccharomyces cerevisiae metabolism for optimised Taxol® precursors production

B Nowrouzi, P Torres-Montero, EJ Kerkhoven… - Metabolic Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been conveniently used to produce Taxol® anticancer drug
early precursors. However, the harmful impact of oxidative stress by the first cytochrome …

Novel mechanism for scavenging of hypochlorite involving a periplasmic methionine-rich peptide and methionine sulfoxide reductase

RA Melnyk, MD Youngblut, IC Clark, HK Carlson… - MBio, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Reactive chlorine species (RCS) defense mechanisms are important for bacterial fitness in
diverse environments. In addition to the anthropogenic use of RCS in the form of bleach …

Xeroprotectants for the stabilization of biomaterials

I Julca, M Alaminos, J González-López… - Biotechnology …, 2012 - Elsevier
With the advancement of science and technology, it is crucial to have effective preservation
methods for the stable long-term storage of biological material (biomaterials). As an …

Population dynamics of the Fusarium head blight biocontrol agent Cryptococcus flavescens OH 182.9 on wheat anthers and heads

DA Schisler, AB Core, MJ Boehm, L Horst, C Krause… - Biological Control, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Cryptococcus flavescens OH 182.9 (NRRL Y-30216) reduces Fusarium head blight
(FHB) incited by Fusarium graminearum and deoxynivalenol (DON) contamination of grain …

TOR and RAS pathways regulate desiccation tolerance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

AZ Welch, PA Gibney, D Botstein… - Molecular biology of the …, 2013 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Tolerance to desiccation in cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is inducible; only one in a
million cells from an exponential culture survive desiccation compared with one in five cells …