K. phaffii: Rising to the Occasion
Type
Blog Post
Published
April 4, 2023, 1 p.m.
...for its powerful promoter of a gene important for methanol usage. This gene promoter, AOX1, was co-opted...experimental model. In fact, approximately 25% of yeast genes have a human counterpart, enabling study of human-relevant...Saccharomyces cerevisiae to human: The important gene co‑expression modules. Biomedical Reports 7.2 (2017...fast (doubling time of ~ 2 hours)
Amenable to genetic manipulation
The first eukaryote (S. cerevisiae... new at all, but it’s not as well-known in the general research community.
Phillips Petroleum Company...release the K. phaffii expression system to the general research community in the 1990s when they abandoned...the strain tractable for peroxisomal studies on biogenesis, degradation, and proliferation.
Genome manipulation...