Budding yeast as a model organism to study the effects of age

A Denoth Lippuner, T Julou… - FEMS microbiology …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Although a budding yeast culture can be propagated eternally, individual yeast cells age
and eventually die. The detailed knowledge of this unicellular eukaryotic species as well as …

Yeast as carrier for drug delivery and vaccine construction

Y Tan, L Chen, K Li, B Lou, Y Liu, Z Liu - Journal of Controlled Release, 2022 - Elsevier
Yeast has been employed as an effective derived drug carrier as a unicellular
microorganism. Many research works have been devoted to the encapsulation of nucleic …

Dectin‐1 mediates macrophage recognition of Candida albicans yeast but not filaments

BN Gantner, RM Simmons, DM Underhill - The EMBO journal, 2005 - embopress.org
The ability of Candida albicans to rapidly and reversibly switch between yeast and
filamentous morphologies is crucial to pathogenicity, and it is thought that the filamentous …

Protein biogenesis machinery is a driver of replicative aging in yeast

GE Janssens, AC Meinema, J Gonzalez, JC Wolters… - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
An integrated account of the molecular changes occurring during the process of cellular
aging is crucial towards understanding the underlying mechanisms. Here, using novel …

Mitotic exit and separation of mother and daughter cells

EL Weiss - Genetics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Productive cell proliferation involves efficient and accurate splitting of the dividing cell into
two separate entities. This orderly process reflects coordination of diverse cytological events …

The impact of brewing yeast cell age on fermentation performance, attenuation and flocculation

CD Powell, DE Quain, KA Smart - FEMS yeast research, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Individual cells of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae exhibit a finite replicative lifespan,
which is widely believed to be a function of the number of divisions undertaken. As a …

The yeast Wsc1 cell surface sensor behaves like a nanospring in vivo

V Dupres, D Alsteens, S Wilk, B Hansen… - Nature chemical …, 2009 - nature.com
Here we report on in vivo measurement of the mechanical behavior of a cell surface sensor
using single-molecule atomic force microscopy. We focus on the yeast wall stress …

Cell wall-related bionumbers and bioestimates of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans

FM Klis, CG de Koster, S Brul - Eukaryotic cell, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bionumbers and bioestimates are valuable tools in biological research. Here we focus on
cell wall-related bionumbers and bioestimates of the budding yeast Saccharomyces …

Single cell analysis of yeast replicative aging using a new generation of microfluidic device

Y Zhang, C Luo, K Zou, Z Xie, O Brandman, Q Ouyang… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
A major limitation to yeast aging study has been the inability to track mother cells and
observe molecular markers during the aging process. The traditional lifespan assay relies …

Nitrogen requirements of commercial wine yeast strains during fermentation of a synthetic grape must

A Gutiérrez, R Chiva, M Sancho, G Beltran… - Food …, 2012 - Elsevier
Nitrogen deficiencies in grape musts are one of the main causes of stuck or sluggish wine
fermentations. Currently, the most common method for dealing with nitrogen-deficient …